Perilous power
Subtitle: the Middle East & U.S. foreign policy : dialogues on terror, democracy, war, and justice
By: Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar ; edited with a preface by Stephen R. Shalom.
Contributors: Achcar, Gilbert.; Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm, 1948-
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781594513121
Subjects: Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; Iraq War, 2003- -- Protest movements -- United States; Insurgency -- Iraq; Democracy -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
Other titles: Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
Description: "Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic of U.S. foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist on the Middle East who lived in that region for many years. In their first book together, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States. They take up all the key questions of interest to concerned citizens, including such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, conspiracies, oil, democracy, self-determination, anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab racism, as well as the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 2006 Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah armed conflict, and the sources of U.S. foreign policy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Terrorism and conspiracies. Defining terrorism ; The terrorist threat ; Responding to terrorism ; 9/11 conspiracies ; Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait; title: Fundamentalism and democracy. Fundamentalism ; The Saudi Kingdom ; Democracy in the Middle East ; Fundamentalism and democracy ; Democracy since the Iraq invasion; title: Sources of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Oil ; Israel, the Israel lobby, and U.S. policy ; Israel and U.S. interests; title: Wars in the "greater Middle East". Afghanistan ; Responding to 9/11 ; Afghanistan today ; The United States and Iraq, 2003 ; Other major powers and Iraq ; The current situation in Iraq ; The Iraqi insurgency ; U.S. policy in Iraq today ; What should the antiwar movement be calling for? ; Will withdrawal lead to civil war? ; The Kurds in Iraq ; The Kurds in Turkey; title: Secession, self-determination, and justice ; Syria ; Iran; title: The Israel-Palestine conflict. The legitimacy of Israel ; Palestinian say in any settlement ; Going from a settlement to lasting peace ; Palestinians within Israel ; Mizrahim ; The Palestinian refugees ; Efforts to achieve peace ; The Palestinian view of a settlement ; Zionism and the Palestinians ; Israeli politics ; Palestinian politics ; How can we support justice in Israel/Palestine? ; Boycotts, divestment, and other tactics ; Anti-semitism ; Anti-semitism in Western Europe ; Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia; title: Epilogue. The situation in Iraq ; Hamas in power ; The Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon conflict ; The Israel lobby ; The United States and Iran ; Hezbollah ; Confrontation with Hamas and Hezbollah.