The author Noam Chomsky isa Professor at Institute at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a world-renowned

linguist, philosopher, and political analyst. He writes extensively
and lectures around the world on international affairs, a big
critique on US foreign policy, and human rights. He has published
numerous books, including Fateful Triangle: The United States,
Israel, and the Palestinians and Powers and Prospects:
Reflections on Human Nature, the Social Order and many others
including supremacy and survival which was famously advocated
by Venezuelan former President Hugo Chavez in the UN General
Assembly.
Noam Chomsky is an articulate opponent of political hypocrisy,
state brutality, and abuse of power. Rogue States is the result of
his tireless efforts to measure the world's superpowers by their
own standards and to hold them accountable for the acts they
commit in the name of their people.
Rogue StatesThe Rule of Force in World Affairs was written in
2000, hardly a year before the infamous attacks on 11
September 2001 (9/11) on the U.S.This book was first published
in the UK in 2000 by Pluto Press (London).
This book critically analyzes the alleged hypocrisy of the US
foreign policy of interventionism and arms transfer. In rogue
states the author covers many topicsi.e. Crisis in Balkan, East
Timor Retrospective, Plan Colombia, Cuba and the US
government, Latin America, Jubilee 2000, Challenge of
Universality the legacy of war, Power in the domestic arena and
Socioeconomic sovereignty. Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze

towards continuing US involvement in the Middle East, Southeast

Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to trace the enduring
combined effects of military domination and economic imperialism
on these Regions. If the book was written after September 11,
2001 then I believe the list would have gone further.

The concept of "rogue state" plays a pre-eminent role today in

policy planning and analysis.
The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example. Washington and
London declared Iraq a "rogue state," a threat to its neighbors
and to the entire world, an "outlaw nation" led by a reincarnation
of Hitler who must be contained by the guardians of world order,
the United States and its British "junior partner," to adopt the
term ruefully employed by the British foreign office half a century
ago.

The United States and its allies commits numerous blatant

violations of the very international laws they claim to uphold.
With analysis of the United States's bombing campaign against
Iraq (without the mandate of the United Nation), NATO'S
intervention in Kosovo, US support for a regime terror in East
Timor, and the political crisis in Colombia, Chomsky interrogates
the rhetoric of Western foreign policy to reveal the deceptive
interests behind insupportable actions from satanic economic
sanctions to surgical military strikes on innocents.Chomsky also
turns his penetrating gaze towards continuing US involvement in
the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin
America to trace the enduring combined effects of military
domination and economic imperialism on these Regions.
Throughout, Chomsky reveals the United States increasingly
open dismissal of United Nations resolutions, the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights, and international legal precedent in

justifying its motives and actions.
The author also talks about the articles and international norms
which were brutally violated. The Charter states that "The
Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to
the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and shall
make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken
in accordance with Articles 41 and 42," which detail the preferred
"measures not involving the use of armed force" and permit the
Security Council to take further action if it finds such measures
inadequate. The only exception is Article 51, which permits the
"right of individual or collective self-defense" against "armed
attack...until the Security Council has taken the measures
necessary to maintain international peace and security." Apart
from these exceptions, member states "shall refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of force."
The U.S. and UK could readily have settled all doubts by calling
on the Security Council to authorize their "threat and use of
force," as required by the Charter. Britain did take some steps in
that direction, but abandoned them when it became obvious, at
once, that the Security Council would not go along. But these
considerations have little relevance in a world dominated by
rogue states that reject the rule of law.

Chomsky begins Rogue States by noting that the term "rogue

state" has two possible usages: "a propagandistic use, applied to
assorted enemies, and a literal use that applies to states that do
not regard themselves as bound by international norms."

The criteria are fairly clear: a "rogue state" is not simply a

criminal state, but one that defies the orders of the powerful
who are, of course, exempt.
U.S. energy corporations will not be happy to see foreign rivals
now including China and Russia as wellgain privileged access to
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