Hegemony or Survival
American strategy read as a standing choice of dominance over security, with the risk exported.
Chomsky’s account of American strategic doctrine after the Cold War, arguing that the pursuit of global dominance has repeatedly been chosen over collective security, and that the risks this creates are treated as acceptable because they fall elsewhere. Written during the Iraq invasion, it reads now as a description of a doctrine rather than a response to one moment.
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