ContentsRogues' Gallery: Who Qualifies? Rogue States Crisis in the Balkans East Timor Retrospective "Plan Colombia" Cuba and the US Government: David vs. Goliath Putting on the Pressure: Latin America Jubilee 2000 "Recovering Rights": A Crooked Path The United States and the "Challenge of Universality" The Legacy of War Millennium Greetings Power in the Domestic Arena Socioeconomic Sovereignty Notes Index An Excerpt from Rogue States by Noam ChomskyThe 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.
