{"product_id":"masters-of-the-universe-natos-balkan-crusade-9781859842690","title":"Masters of the Universe?: NATO's Balkan Crusade","description":"NATO's war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the world's three largest countries, India, China and Russia, who saw the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo as a naked attempt to assert US dominance in an unstable world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the West, media networks were joined by substantial sectors of left\/liberal opinion in supporting the war. Nonetheless, a wide variety of figures emerged to challenge the prevailing consensus. Their work, gathered here for the first time, forms a collection of key statements and anti-war writings from some of democracy's most eloquent dissidents--Noam Chomsky, Harold Pinter, Edward Said and many others--who provide carefully researched examinations of the real motives for the US action, dissections and critiques of the ideology of 'humanitarian warfare', and chartings of the unnecessary tragedy of a region laid to waste in the pursuance of Great Power politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis reader presents some of the most important texts on NATO's Balkan crusade and forms a major intervention in the debate on global geo-political strategy after the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTariq Ali\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics--including \u003ci\u003ePirates of the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBush in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Clash of Fundamentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiovanni Arrighi\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Long Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdam Smith in Beijing\u003c\/i\u003e, and, with Beverly Silver, \u003ci\u003eChaos and Governance in the Modern World System\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e--who published an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory in March-April 2009, and an obituary in Nov-Dec 2009--and there are more accounts on his memorial website. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the New School in New York and the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Making of New World Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Overthrow of Colonial Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAge Shock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBanking on Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe American Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Manufacturing Consent \u003c\/i\u003e(with Ed Herman), \u003ci\u003e Deterring Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Year 501\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e World Orders Old and New\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Powers and Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Profit over People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Military Humanism \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rogue States\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRégis Debray \u003c\/b\u003eteaches philosophy at the Université de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMedia Manifestos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCritique of Political Reason\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod: An Itinerary\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from Verso. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Gowan\u003c\/b\u003e (1946-2009) taught international relations for many years at London Metropolitan University. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Global Gamble\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Calculus of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e, cofounder of the journal \u003ci\u003eLabour Focus on Eastern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e, and a longstanding member of the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e--who published an interview with Peter Gowan along with an obituary in Sept-Oct 2009. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/b\u003e (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Peace Process\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePower, Politics and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir \u003ci\u003eOut of Place\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of \u003ci\u003eBlaming the Victims\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Verso. \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e published an obituary in Nov-Dec 2003. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Meiksins Wood, \u003c\/b\u003e for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eDemocracy Against Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Verso, \u003ci\u003eThe Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiberty and Property\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363461042450,"sku":"9781859842690","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce9e34d7-7ed3-4c14-bb8b-13bade9ba274.jpg?v=1728415325","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/masters-of-the-universe-natos-balkan-crusade-9781859842690","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}