Deterring Democracy

By Noam Chomsky

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

I. Cold War: Fact and Fancy

• 1. The Cold War as Ideological Construct
• 2. The Cold War as Historical Process
• 3. Before and After
• 4. Bolsheviks and Moderates
• 5. The Foundations of Policy
• 6. The Next Stage

II. The Home Front

• 1. The "Unimportant People"
• 2. Political Successes
• 3. The Achievements of Economic Management
• 4. Restoring the Faith
• 5. Public Vices

III. The Global System

• 1. Separation Anxieties
• 2. The Changing Tasks
• 3. Containing "Gorby Fever"
• 4. The Community of Nations
• 5. The Silver Lining
• 6. The Soviet Threat

IV. Problems of Population Control

• 1. "The Unsettling Specter of Peace"
• 2. The Drug War
• 3. The Contours of the Crisis
• 4. The Narcotraffickers
• 5. Social Policy and the Drug Crisis
• 6. The Usual Victims
• 7. The Best-laid Plans...

V. The Post-Cold War Era

• 1. Creeping Colonialism
• 3. Operation Just Cause: the Pretexts
• 4. Operation Just Cause: the Reasons
• 5. Good Intentions Gone Awry
• 6. The War Goes On

VI. Nefarious Aggression

• 1. Our Traditional Values
• 2. Framing the Issues
• 3. Paths away from Disaster
• 4. Steady on Course
• 5. The U.N. Learns to Behave
• 6. Moderates and Nationalists
• 7. The Diplomatic Track
• 8. Safeguarding our Needs

VII. The Victors

• 1. The Fruits of Victory: Central America
• 2. The Fruits of Victory: Latin America
• 3. The Fruits of Victory: the Caribbean
• 4. The Fruits of Victory: Asia
• 5. The Fruits of Victory: Africa
• 6. The "Unrelenting Nightmare"
• 7. Comparisons and their Pitfalls

VIII. The Agenda of the Doves: 1988

• 1. The Common Interests: 1980
• 2. The Common Interests: 1988
• 3. The Freedom to Act Responsibly
• 4. Containment without Rollback
• 5. Laying Down the Law
• 6. Foreign Agents
• 7. Yearning for Democracy

IX. The Mortal Sin of Self-Defense

• 1. The Skunk at the Garden Party
• 2. The Guests so Sorely Troubled
• 3. From Illusion to Reality
• 4. The 1990 Elections

X. The Decline of the Democratic Ideal

• 1. The Winner: George Bush
• 2. United in Joy
• 3. The Case for the Doves
• 4. "Rallying to Chamorro"
• 5. Within Nicaragua
• 6. Looking Ahead

XI. Democracy in the Industrial Societies

• 1. The Preference for Democracy
• 2. The General Outlines
• 3. The "Great Workshops": Japan
• 4. The "Great Workshops": Germany
• 5. The Smaller Workshops
• 6. Some Broader Effects

XII. Force and Opinion

• 1. The Harsher Side
• 2. The Bewildered Herd and its Shepherds
• 3. Short of Force
• 4. The Pragmatic Criterion
• 5. The Range of Means
• 6. The Untamed Rabble

AFTERWORD

• 1. The "Gulf War" in Retrospect
• 2. Deterring Iraqi Democracy
• 3. "The Best of all Worlds"
• 4. Marching Forward
• 5. The US versus the Peace Process
• 6. The Evolution of US Policy
• 7. Bush-Baker Diplomacy
• 8. Israel's Policy Spectrum
• 9. The Prospects

[ Table of Contents ] [ Introduction ] [ I. Cold War: Fact and Fancy ] [ II. The Home Front ] [ III. The Global System ] [ IV. Problems of Population Control ] [ V. The Post-Cold War Era ] [ VI. Nefarious Aggression ] [ VII. The Victors ] [ VIII. The Agenda of the Doves: 1988 ] [ IX. The Mortal Sin of Self-Defense ] [ X. The Decline of the Democratic Ideal ] [ XI. Democracy in the Industrial Societies ] [ XII. Force and Opinion ] [ Afterword ]

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