AuthorNoam Chomskyb. 1928Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006. In it, Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a "failed state" and therefore a danger both to its own people and to the world.
The first chapter, titled "Stark, Dreadful, Inescapable" in allusion to the famous Russell–Einstein Manifesto, argues that US foreign and military policies after the Cold War greatly increased the danger of nuclear war. Chomsky then recounts various facts about the Iraq War and contends that the United States specifically sought regime change, rather than the stated destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
The book was republished by Haymarket Books in January 2024.
Themes
Other works by Noam Chomsky
- Syntactic Structures 1957
- Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 1965
- Cartesian Linguistics 1966
- The Sound Pattern of English 1968
- American Power and the New Mandarins 1969
- Manufacturing Consent 1988
- World Orders Old and New 1994
- Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order 1999
- Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 2003
- Gaza in Crisis 2010
- Requiem for the American Dream 2017
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