Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy
Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy

Author: Benjamin R. Barber

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-10-17

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0393070417

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"Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary Hart 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.

Democracy and America's War on Terror
Democracy and America's War on Terror

Author: Robert L. Ivie

Publisher: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Robert Ivie discusses democracy's centrality to the national identity and how prevailing constructions of democracy constitute a republic of fear in which the threat of foreign and domestic "others" is chronically exaggerated through rituals of vilification and victimization.

Jihad Vs. McWorld
Jihad Vs. McWorld

Author: Benjamin R. Barber

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Barber offers a bold lens through which to understand the chaotic events of the post-Cold War world and, in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, explains the forces at work, why democracy is under siege, and what the consequences are for citizenship.

Globalization of American Fear Culture
Globalization of American Fear Culture

Author: Geoffrey R. Skoll

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1137570342

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Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to carry out their policies. As the world's political economy devolves into chaos, Globalization of American Fear Culture posits that violence and fear have become the new statecraft.

Strong Democracy
Strong Democracy

Author: Benjamin Barber

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780520242333

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"One of the chosen few: an enduring contribution to democratic thought."—Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

The Road to 9/11
The Road to 9/11

Author: Peter Dale Scott

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780520258716

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This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrorist attack. Scott shows how America's expansion into the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision making at high levels. He demonstrates how these decisions by small cliques are responsive to the agendas of private wealth at the expense of the public, of the democratic state, and of civil society. He shows how, in implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped create, including al Qaeda.

A Place for Us
A Place for Us

Author: Benjamin R. Barber

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 080907656X

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In our crowded, noisy world—too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time—it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy? In this provocative, hard-hitting book, political scientist Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them. Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for affirming values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.

Philosophical Perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism'
Philosophical Perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism'

Author: Gail M. Presbey

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 9042021969

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This book responds to the Bush Administration position on the "war on terror." It examines preemption within the context of "just war"; justification for the United States-led invasion of Iraq, with some authors charging that its tactics serve to increase terror; global terrorism; and concepts such as reconciliation, Islamic identity, nationalism, and intervention.

The Homeland Security Dilemma
The Homeland Security Dilemma

Author: Frank P. Harvey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0415775159

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This book explores the paradox of the 'security dilemma' in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security. It argues that the more security you have, the more security you will need, as enhancing security raises public expectations.

Urban Fears and Global Terrors
Urban Fears and Global Terrors

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 113407655X

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First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.