World Orders, Old and New

In this study of global politics, the author challenges conventional definitions of the "New World Order", examining the acts of imperialism and economic manipulation which have produced the unbalanced world order of the 1990s.

Based on three lectures given at the University of Cairo in 1993 - each considerably expanded and updated - the author begins with a reconsideration of the Cold War, revealing how it became a pretext for the USA to expand politically, economically and militarily under the guise of self-defence.

The book also offers a new commentary on the Gulf War and the relationship between America and Britain and the "enemy" before, during and after hostilities.

In a detailed analysis of the strategic manoeuvres between the West and the Third World, Chomsky concludes that George Bush's New World Order has become a domestic and international propaganda tool in the hands of the powerful.

Containing a new epilogue for 1997, this work offers an assault on the legitimacy of the status quo, old and new.