Failed States

In his systematic dismantling of the United States' false status as global arbiters of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused and urgent critique to date.

For Chomsky, Failed States are those that lack the capacity to protect their citizens from violence and consider themselves above the law.

The United States poses an increasing danger to its inhabitants and the world at large, as its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis and its policies and practices place the world on the brink of nuclear and environmental disaster.

Hard-hitting, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations. In his systematic dismantling of the United States' false status as global arbiters of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused and urgent critique to date.