Failed States (book)

Failed States

Author	Noam Chomsky
Publisher	Metropolitan Books ; Haymarket Books
Publication date	April 2006 ; January 2024
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	320
ISBN	9798888901434
Dewey Decimal	327.73009/0511 22
LC Class	E902 .C468 2006

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a "failed state", and thus a danger to its own people and the world. It was republished by Haymarket Books in January 2024.

Context

The first chapter, titled "Stark, Dreadful, Inescapable" to allude to the famous Russell–Einstein Manifesto, argues that the US foreign and military policies following the Cold War greatly aggravated the danger of nuclear war. Chomsky then recounts various facts about the Iraq War and argues the United States specifically sought regime change, rather than the stated destruction of Iraq's WMD program.

See also

• Abuse of power
• Corruption in the United States

References

• Chomsky, Noam (January 2024). Failed States. Haymarket Books. ISBN 9798888901434.
• Freedland, Jonathan (June 25, 2006). "Homeland Insecurity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
• Paneth, Donald (June 30, 2006). "Dissent to Barbarism: Review of Failed States by Noam Chomsky". The Indypendent. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
• "Review of Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy". Insight Turkey. 8 (2): 151. 2006. ISSN 1302-177X. JSTOR 26328770.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2006). "Review of Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 82 (4): 265. ISSN 0042-675X. JSTOR 26444634.
• Sherman, Steven (August 26, 2006). "Review of 'Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy,' by Noam Chomsky". Journal of World-Systems Research: 360–363. doi:10.5195/jwsr.2006.367. ISSN 1076-156X.

External links

• Official website
• Full text at the Internet Archive