Fear's empire : war, terrorism, and democracy

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Fear's empire : war, terrorism, and democracy

Benjamin R. Barber

(A Norton paperback)

W.W. Norton & Co., 2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published as a Norton paperback 2004" -- T.p. verso

"With a new preface" -- Cover

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Description

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.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA71159205
  • ISBN
    • 0393325784
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    254 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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