Hopes and prospects /
By: Chomsky, Noam.
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2010Description: vii, 327 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781931859967 (alk. paper); 9781931859967; 1931859965 (alk. paper).Subject(s): World politics -- 21st century | Latin American federation | Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- | United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009- | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017 | United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America | Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United StatesDDC classification: 327.73Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 327.73 CHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | M028391 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-313) and index.
Preface -- Latin America: -- Year 514: globalization for whom? -- Latin America and US foreign policy -- Democracy and development: their enemies, their hopes -- Latin American and Caribbean unity -- North America: -- Good news, Iraq and beyond -- Free elections, good news and bad -- Century's challenges -- Turning point? -- Elections 2008: hope confronts the real world -- Obama on Israel-Palestine -- Torture memos -- 1989 and beyond -- Notes -- Index.
Chomsky shows how direct participation in action in the United States, Latin America, Bolivia, and Haiti in particular has put into practice a different model of democracy that could portend. more far-reaching, badly needed changes.