Hegemony or Survival
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, published November 2003 is a book by Noam Chomsky, a macroscopic view of United States foreign policy from World War II to the post-Iraq War reconstruction. The central focus of the book (as with many of Chomsky's political works), is the examination of the United States' political, military and economic motives, in comparison —often in sharp contrast— to its outward rhetorical support for democracy, the Middle-East peace process, free trade, and human rights. There is an examination of the differences between positions taken by the US Government and the people of the world regarding a proposed invasion of Iraq.
It also examines the doctrinal thinking of the Establishment in Britain and the US, such as in regard to propoganda use, centralised decision making and imperialism of Western powers from recent American invasions, to the European empires.
The book has been featured more prominently in the mainstream media in the US as well as abroad, perhaps because of the timing of its release, around the period of the Iraq War.
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