Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and DemocracyW. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 220 sidor 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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... effectively put them there . ) than Yet while terrorism appears an impressive display of brute power , it is in fact a strategy of fear rather than force , of weakness rather than strength . Donald Rumsfeld likes to quote Al Capone's ...
... effectively put them there . ) than Yet while terrorism appears an impressive display of brute power , it is in fact a strategy of fear rather than force , of weakness rather than strength . Donald Rumsfeld likes to quote Al Capone's ...
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... effectively than al - Qaeda could have . The stock market has yet to recover . Before the war in Iraq began , the government closed off pedestrian access in front of the White House and , with unintended irony , walled in the Liberty ...
... effectively than al - Qaeda could have . The stock market has yet to recover . Before the war in Iraq began , the government closed off pedestrian access in front of the White House and , with unintended irony , walled in the Liberty ...
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... effective , chemical or biological agents must be spread in a diffuse cloud over a large area " ( The Militarily Critical Technologies List , Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology , Washington , D.C. ...
... effective , chemical or biological agents must be spread in a diffuse cloud over a large area " ( The Militarily Critical Technologies List , Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology , Washington , D.C. ...
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Eagles and Owls | 35 |
The Myth of Independence | 47 |
The War of All Against All | 67 |
The New Doclrine of Preventive War | 78 |
The Old Doctrine of Deterrence | 102 |
LEX HUMANA OR PREVENTIVE DEMOCRACY | 143 |
Preventive Democracy | 145 |
You Cant Export McWorld and Call It Democracy | 155 |
You Cant Export America and Call It Freedom | 169 |
CivWorld | 200 |
Conclusion | 213 |
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Sida 7 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! '' Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Sida 7 - Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.