Fear's Empire War, Terrorism, and Democracy
Benjamin R. BarberPublished2003
Pages220
Formathardcover
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Synopsis
Benjamin R. Barber lambasts the Bush administration's attempt to fight fear with fear in the age of terrorism and argues against the tendency to confuse the spread of McWorld - the seductive blend of free-market ideology and American brands - with the spread of democracy. containment and deterrence, and the dilemmas faced by America today. He rails against unilateralism, nuclear deterrence and reliance on military solutions, advocating instead an America that promotes co-operation, multilateralism, international law and pooled sovereignty.
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About Benjamin R. Barber
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Benjamin R. Barber
1939–2017
Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, *Jihad vs. McWorld*, and for 2013's *If Mayors Ruled the World* as well as the classic of democratic theory, 1984's *Strong Democracy* (revised in 2004). He became a top-level international consultant on participatory democracy as well as an adviser to Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Barber">Benjamin Barber</a> on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>).
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