Sarah's review
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project)
by Noam Chomsky
Sarah's review
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky
Sarah's review
rating:
I had only read bits of Chomsky's work before getting to this, and it is just as intelligent and about as politically charged as I expected, and substantially less difficult to get through. I happen to have had a very liberal Spanish program in my high school that taught me a lot of Latin American history, which might have made the book, with its frequent references to U.S. aggression in that region, less surprising. The interesting point, to me, was that Chomsky sees both the Latin American aggression and the current campaigns in the Middle East as being motivated by a desire for ideological hegemony -- that is, the proliferation of Western political, social, and, importantly, economic systems.
