Altered States

A Reader in the New World Order

By Phyllis Bennis & Michel Moushabeck (ed.)

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“No other work known to me covers as comprehensively and critically world politics after the Cold War. This is a unique compendium of dissenting voices from Tony Benn and Mary Kaldor to Noam Chomsky and Edward Said… should be required reading for students and teachers alike. ” — Eqbal Ahmad, Hampshire College

About this book

The "new world order" has become the watchword of U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War, post-Gulf War world. The aftermath of those two wars, one almost half a century old, the other only months long, has been marked by new sets of political, economic, strategic and military relations across the globe.

Altered States has gathered leading academics and analysts from around the world to investigate the impact of the changing world, especially on the nations and peoples of the South, the developing countries of the Third World.

These essays provide the most comprehensive guide to the emerging "new world order," with detailed analyses of specific national and regional situations, while never losing sight of the global ramifications of changing political, economic and military relations in a world with only one superpower.

Brand: Phyllis Bennis

About the author

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and Director of its New Internationalism Program. She is also a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her areas include U.S. unilateralism and empire, the Middle East (particularly Israel-Palestine and Iraq), and US-United Nations relations.

She is the author of Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power, Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN, and Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism. Earlier books include From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising, Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, and Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader.

Bennis appears frequently as a commentator/analyst on U.S. and international television and radio programs, including “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, the CBS “Morning Show,” NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show,” “Democracy Now,” and many others on CNN, BBC, Fox, CBC, and al-Jazeera TV. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), TomPaine.com, New York Newsday, Soera (Amsterdam), Papeles (Madrid), die Tageszeitung (Berlin), The Philadelphia Enquirer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Middle East Report (MERIP), The Nation, Mother Jones, Third World Resurgence (Malaysia), and many other publications.

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