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The Tension Between Tribalism and Globalization |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Kenneth Gray |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 986 Words, 6,665 Characters |
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JIHAD VS. McWORLD: HOW GLOBALISM AND TRIBALISM ARE RESHAPING THE WORLD
By Benjamin Barber
Ballantine Books, a Division of Random House, 1996
389 pp. With appendix, notes and index, paper, $12.95
Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers University and director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, has crafted an interesting book from his 1992 Atlantic Monthly article of the same title. It is thought-provoking and readable. Barber proposes a world that consists of two dominating forces, both bringing together and tearing apart the world as we know it. These two forces are the globalization, modern, proa...
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...istribution in the trading partner's society remains controversial. As there is greater connectedness and globalization of the world's markets and peoples, the space for political vision and choice--and for a diversity of choices--is open and wide. The biggest question left unaddressed is which politics will seize and use this space, and for whom?
© 1999 International Journal on World Peace
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