In this widely acclaimed study of global politics, Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the 'new world order'. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious piece of 'historical engineering', whereby the pretexts for the Cold War - nuclear threat, Eastern Bloc menace - have been deftly replaced by a new set of convenient justifications for a Western agenda that remains largely unchanged.
Now with a new and extensive epilogue on the Middle East, World Orders Old And New is as relevant now as when it was first published.
Preface
Part One: Marching in Place
1. The Cold War and Population Control
2. New World Orders
3. A Test Case: Iraq and the West
4. The Cold War Reconsidered
5. North-South/East-West
Part Two: The Political-Economic Order
Table of Contents
1. Securing the Home Front
2. Some Lessons in History
3. 'The Government of the World'
4. The Balance Sheet
5. Looking Ahead
6. The Contours of the New World Order
Part Three: History's 'Greatest Prize'
1. Updating the Monroe Doctrine
2. Containing the Internal Enemy
3. The Structure of Power
4. The Regional Actors
5. Seeking Peace: Stage One
6. Seeking Peace: The Interests of the Actors
7. Seeking Peace: The Recent Phase
8. Conquering History
9. The Berlin Wall Falls Again
Afterword on Palestine
