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A New Generation Draws the Line, Noam Chomsky
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- A New Generation Draws the Line
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Noam Chomsky
- Verlag
- Verso
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 160
- ISBN10
- 1859843808
- ISBN13
- 9781859843802
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Politik, Wissenschaft
- Beschreibung
- s/t: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West1999 saw two major international crises which, looked at side-by-side by Noam Chomsky, starkly illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. In this volume Chomsky convincingly argues that humanitarianism was not the moving force behind NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, and that there, as in East Timor, strategic concerns were dominant and the fate of civilian populations incidental.Author Biography: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books including American Power and the New Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and Prospects, Profits over People, and The New Military Humanism: Lessons of Kosovo.