Noam Chomsky 
On Power and Ideology 
The Managua Lectures

In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan’s interventions in Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and gave the lectures that became On Power and Ideology.



The lectures provide a master class in foreign policy analysis from an intellectual at the height of his powers, covering everything from the US domestic basis of its overseas actions, to the pernicious concept of ‘National Security’ and its destabilising effect, to the broad framework of global imperial order which the United States seeks to maintain. A defining moment in the Cold War meets a defining moment in the career of one of its most important critics.

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Preface to the 2015 Edition

Preface

Lecture 1: The Overall Framework of Order

Lecture 2: Containing Internal Aggression

Lecture 3: Our Little Region Over Here

Lecture 4: National Security Policy

Lecture 5: The Domestic Scene

Bibliographical Notes

Over de auteur

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and has profoundly shaped contemporary understanding of American politics. An ally of anarcho-syndicalists the world over, he has authored numerous books on linguistics, history and politics. He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.