| Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy Revised Edition Contributor(s): Barber, Benjamin R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393325784 ISBN-13: 9780393325782 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: IN THIS HARD-HITTING but pragmatic now 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy - Political Science | American Government - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 327.73 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.52" W x 8.28" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barber, Benjamin R.: - Benjamin R. Barber (1939--2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld. |