| Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties Contributor(s): Friel, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566569427 ISBN-13: 9781566569422 Publisher: Olive Branch Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Terrorism |
| Dewey: 355.033 |
| LCCN: 2013023663 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.50 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ?Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT's Noam Chomsky and Harvard's Alan Dershowitz--the two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty years--author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky's principled support of international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of those legal standards today. Friel's volume argues that a Chomskyan adherence by the United States to international law and human rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United States. |