Who Rules the World?

By Noam Chomsky

Book Overview

A New York Times Bestseller

With a New Afterword

The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the sordid history of U.S. involvement with Cuba to the sanctions on Iran, he details how America's rhetoric of freedom and human rights so often diverges from its actions. He delves deep into the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine, providing unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. And, in a new afterword, he addresses the election of Donald Trump and what it shows about American society.

Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central issues of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.

An American Empire Project

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250131081
• ISBN13: 9781250131089
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A preface for the 21st century

Those who are already familiar with Chomsky's work will find similar themes of (American) hypocrisy in this book. Those who are not will find the real, and true colors of the United States--a global terrorist--fixed on the pursuit of global hegemony. As one of the most prominent intellectuals notable for his critic on the Western world, Chomsky explains to us the decline of the United States, and at the same time, the rise of other players to global power. But most importantly, he reveals to us where the future looms as money dictate the hope for the decent survival of our species.