SUMMARY OF
Noam
Chomsky’s
Contours
of Global order: Domination,
Instability
and Xenophobia in a Changing World
Current
situation of the world is mostly a necessary consequence of the issues which
have developed through 20th century. Noam Chomsky explains the keys
to understand nowadays’ complex reality.
The so called
“Arab Spring” and the protest movements in developed countries claiming for
authentic democracy mean an encouraging increase of popular forces. These two
courses of action, nevertheless, run in different directions. In Arab world,
towards getting elementary rights, denied by dictatorships and, in the west,
towards defending rights, that had been won in long and hard struggles, now
under severe attack. For the moment, we don’t know for sure how those movements
will influence in the US declining as hegemonic country and in the “most
strategically important area”, in Eisenhouer’s words.
Grand Area
doctrine is a policymaking which was consolidated during the world war II.
According to it, the US, as hegemonic country, had to dominate a Grand Area,
including Western hemisphere, the Far East and the former British Empire, with
its Middle East energy resources. Grand Area doctrines clearly license military
intervention at will to key markets, energy supplies and strategic resources.
We have to in this context the invasion of Iraq or the so called Iranian
threat, which is nothing but am exercise of sovereignty that might interfere
with US freedom of action in the region. In addition, the support that the US
and their allies to the Arab Spring, means actually that those revolutions, for
example in Egypt or Tunisia, have consisted in a change of names, but the
regimes remain. Grand Area doctrines have no problem to support dictatorship or
democracy whatever they are obedient. While Grand Area doctrine still prevails,
the capacity to implement it has declined, as has declined the US and allies
hegemony.
To understand
Current world we have to point the sharp change in economy towards the
concentration of wealth and power, while the population real income have
stagnated and people have been getting by with increase work hours, debt and
asset inflation, regularly destroyed by the financial crisis, that began as the
regulatory apparatus was dismantled from 1980s.
Another face
of nowadays world, also inherited, is the situation of immigrants in the US and
Europe, even more so at times of economic crisis. Immigrants are seem as a
threat as well as white people will becoming a minority. As a result, racism is
increasing in Western society and, what is more frightening, neofascism parties
are rising in France, England and other developed countries.
To finish the
sad picture, the ecological issues, including endangered species and global
warning are denied by many powerful people, even trusting in the God’s promise
to Noah that there will not be another flood. This is not the only frightening
fanatic faith, the dogma of the efficient market, for example, is as dangerous
as a religious dogma.
