Through his frequent public speeches and media appearances, Chomsky continues to influence debate about the ethical implications of American hard power and the US’s role in spreading global economic injustice-two areas that are inseparable from the study of American foreign policy.
One might contemplate the different approaches to US foreign policy in the field of American studies while reading Who Rules the World?, the recent collection of essays by the veteran academic and political activist Noam Chomsky. Students’ motivations for enrolling often entail a desire to engage critically with US foreign policy in a deeper and more meaningful way than how it is often presented in the mainstream media and in political discourse. After all, students (and young people generally) tend to want to understand how the world around them works, and learning about the international behaviour of the most influential global player is in this respect a good place to start. The popularity of US foreign policy courses in American studies departments across the UK is therefore unsurprising. Many current American studies graduates were born around the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks and have grown up during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, two of the most controversial and polarising global events of the twenty-first century.
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