World Orders, Old and New

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Pluto Press, 1997 - Political Science - 358 pages
In this updated study of global politics, Naom Chomsky challenges conventional definitions of the New World Order. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious piece of historical engineering, whereby the pretexts for the Cold War - nuclear threat, Eastern Bloc menace - have been deftly replaced by a new set of convenient justifications for a Western agenda that remains largely unchanged.

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About the author (1997)

Noam Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of America's foremost social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of numerous books for Pluto Press.

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