Fear's Empire - War, Terrorism, and Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin R. Barber (1939—2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld . Klappentext The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the folly of an agenda of preventive war, placing it in the context of two hundred years of American strategic doctrine (including the recent history of deterrence and containment). He shows how chosen "rogue states" have been made to stand in for terrorists too difficult to locate and destroy, and how the United States continues to support dictatorship in nations it regards as friends, while still believing we can impose democracy on vanquished enemies at the barrel of a gun. Barber argues for an America that promotes cooperation, multilateralism, international law, and pooled sovereignty. For as law and citizenship alone secure liberty within nations, law and citizenship alone can secure liberty among them, freeing them from fear. Zusammenfassung "Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary Hart

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin R. Barber
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780393325782
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32578-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA; Politik, Zeitgeschichte, USA; Geschichte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence and abuse in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice