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Discerning the patterns of world order: Noam Chomsky and international theory after the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2003

Abstract

In this article I argue that Chomsky's political writings, widely ignored in the discipline, are a significant resource for thinking about contemporary world politics, how we should analyse it, and to what ends. This claim is defended through an analysis of recent efforts by IR scholars to interpret the post-Cold War order. When viewed through the analytic perspective articulated by Chomsky, disciplinary accounts of the post-Cold War world as liberal and peaceful are shown to be insufficiently attentive to the empirical record. Chomsky's political writings are also shown to be compatible with standard accounts of critical social science.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2003 British International Studies Association

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