Perilous power : the Middle East & U.S. foreign policy : dialogues on terror, democracy, war, and justice / Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar ; edited with a preface by Stephen R. Shalom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index.

1. Terrorism and conspiracies -- 2. Fundamentalism and democracy -- 3. Sources of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East -- 4. Wars in the "greater Middle East" -- 5. The Israel-Palestine conflict.

"Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic of U.S. foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist on the Middle East who lived in that region for many years. In their first book together, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States. They take up all the key questions of interest to concerned citizens, including such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, conspiracies, oil, democracy, self-determination, anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab racism, as well as the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 2006 Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah armed conflict, and the sources of U.S. foreign policy."--BOOK JACKET.