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As The New Statesman so brilliantly and definitively put it: 'for anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.' You may well know that Chomsky featured in their guide to the twelve greatest thinkers of out time, and that he was crowned #1 Global Public Intellectual by Prospect magazine last year. So you can imagine how excited and proud we are to be publishing his ground-breaking new book, Failed States, this month.
The US government has routinely cited the threat of 'failed states' to the world's security, asserting the right to intervene with military force to prevent their further collapse. 'Failed states' are those on the peripheries of the global system, with either weak, nonexistent or dictatorial governments, which are allegedly incapable of satisfying the basic needs of their citizens, and are considered a serious threat. But as Chomsky so compellingly argues, America itself is a failed state, and is as such not only a danger to its people, but increasingly to the world, too. He draws attention to the inescapable irony that the US, long involved in democracy-building adventures all over the globe, desperately needs to revitalise democracy far closer to home...
We hope that you'll make time to read Chomsky's latest, which is perhaps his most powerful and incisive book to date. To tie in with its release, we're also publishing Imperial Ambitions – an eye-opening series of interviews conducted by award-winning journalist David Barsamian, in which Chomsky discusses US policies in an increasingly unstable post-9/11 world – in paperback for the first time. Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed; here are two books that you really can't afford to miss.
Praise for Noam Chomsky:
'Chomsky has an authority granted by brilliance'
David Goodhart, Sunday Times
'Chomsky is one of a small band of individuals fighting a whole industry. And that makes him not only brilliant, but heroic'
Arundhati Roy
'A rebel without a pause'
Bono
 Failed States, by Noam Chomsky, is out now in Hamish Hamilton hardback.
Read the Independent's exclusive extract from Failed States here |
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