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Globally, reviews were more positive.

Piyush Mathur reviewed the work for Asia Times Online, a joint Thai-Hong Kongese publication.

Praising the book, Mathur argued that by being a U. S. citizen who was willing to criticise his own government, Chomsky was showing " a way beyond parochialism " that avoided nationalistic or ethnocentric intentions.

Highlighting Chomsky's " wry humor and sarcasm ", he notes that the author " successfully shows that the American emperor, while preaching modesty to the rest, himself struts about rather ostentatiously.

" Mathur also turned his attention to the most prominent press reviews of the book that appeared in the U. S. and U. K., those of Power and Cohen.

He argues that the former's review was " hardly charitable ", and that she had narrowly framed Hegemony or Survival as a critique purely of the Bush administration, something Mathur highlighted it clearly was not.

Turning to Cohen's " venomous " review, he highlights that it actually dealt very little with Chomsky's book, instead offering a diatribe against the Left, one which consisted of a " thoroughly convoluted vagueness ".

Ultimately, Mathur notes that the " strangely defensive and rather parochial posture " adopted by Power and Cohen was " entirely in line " with the reception that Chomsky had received from the Anglo-American world.