Humanitarian imperialism: The new doctrine of imperial right

Monthly Review

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 22-50

  Chomsky, Noam ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 53349145747     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-060-04-2008-08_2     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. New York Times chief diplomatic correspondent Thomas Friedman, quoting a high government official, January 12, 1992.
2. For more, and sources, see my New Military Humanism (Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 1999).
3. Boston Review (February 1994).
4. For detailed examination of the role assigned to China in the "virulence and pervasiveness of American visionary globalism underlying Washington's strategic policy" in Asia, see James Peck, Washington's China (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).
5. McSherry, Predatory States (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
6. Simes, "If the Cold War Is Over, Then What?," New York Times, December 27, 1988.
7. Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans (Random House, 2007).
8. Reporters' paraphrase; Stephen Kurkjian and Adam Pertman, Boston Globe, January 5, 1990.
9. Lars Schoultz, Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981).
10. Hans C. Von Sponeck, A Different Kind of War (New York: Berghahn, 2006);
11. Spokesman 96, 2007. On the oil for food program fraud, see my Failed States (Metropolitan, 2006).
12. For a review of the miserable denouement, see my A New Generation Draws the Line (Verso, 2000).
13. See Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood (New York: Verso, 2007), for an expert and penetrating study of what followed, through the 2004 military coup that overthrew the elected government once again, backed by the traditional torturers, France, and the United States; and the resilience of the Haitian people as they sought to rise again from the ruins.
14. A New Generation Draws the Line. On what was known at once, see my New Military Humanism.
15. Robertson, New Generation, 106-7. Cook, House of Commons Session 1999-2000, Defence Committee Publications, Part II, 35.
16. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention and International Society (Oxford, 2000). Hayden, interview with Doug Henwood, WBAI, New York, reprinted in Henwood, Left Business Observer #89, April 27, 1999.
17. Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2003);
18. Michael Lind, National Interest (May-June 2007).
19. John Norris, Collision Course (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005).