From World War II until the 1980s, the United States held the dominant position as the world's economic and military leader. The significant changes in global politics brought about by the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc have left the United States undisputed as the foremost military power, but their economic strength has dramatically declined in the face of competition, initially from Germany and Japan and more recently from new, prosperous countries elsewhere. In this book, Noam Chomsky highlights the potentially disastrous consequences of this imbalance. He reveals a world in which the United States ruthlessly exploits its advantage to impose its national interests - and in the process destroys weaker nations. "Deterring Democracy" offers a shattering analysis of American Imperialism, unsettlingly linking the suppression of information within the U.S. with the aggressive expansion of their empire abroad.