A New Generation Draws the Line. Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West.

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 154. Quarter-bound black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, titled in white to spine; black endpapers. Includes references and index.

1999 saw two major international crises which, looked at side-by-side by Noam Chomsky, starkly illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. In this volume Chomsky convincingly argues that humanitarianism was not the driving force behind NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, and that there, as in East Timor, strategic concerns were dominant and the fate of civilian populations incidental. "[Chomsky is] one of the West's most influential intellectuals in the cause of peace." –The Independent