Perilous Power: The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy — When Security Produces Insecurity
Can policies designed to suppress insecurity become part of the system that reproduces it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Perilous Power: The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar as our lens, this episode investigates the systems linking terrorism, military intervention, geopolitical power, authoritarian alliances, fundamentalism, and energy resources.
Based primarily on conversations conducted in 2006, the book is treated here as a historically situated…
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