Description
| Product ID: | 9781566569743 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Chomsky and Dershowitz |
| Subtitle: | On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties |
| Authors: | Author: Howard Friel |
| Page Count: | 376 |
| Subjects: | Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, International relations, Human rights, civil rights, Civics and citizenship, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare and defence, War crimes, Political science & theory, Political ideologies, International relations, Human rights, Civil rights & citizenship, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare & defence, War crimes |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT''s Noam Chomsky and Harvard''s Alan Dershowitz - the two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty years - author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky''s principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of those legal standards today. Friel''s volume argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the United States to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United States. |
| Imprint Name: | Crocodile Books USA |
| Publisher Name: | Interlink Publishing Group, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-12-05 |
