President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet most often he disappointed the big thinkers whose advice he sought.
Benjamin Barber was first invited to Camp David in 1994, along with other prominent members of the academic community, to participate in a "seminar" with President Clinton on the fu...
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 "rogu...
A provocative and original book which argues that the nation-state has become democratically dysfunctional and obsolete, and it is cities and the mayors that run them that are doing a better job in the face of the challenges of our time: climate change, terrorism, poverty and trafficking.
Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma-its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recreates their poignant thousand-year struggle to maintain this tradition in the face of a hostile env...
One of the chosen few: an enduring contribution to democratic thought."—Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understan...
The motivating force behind the Global Parliament of Mayors, Barber places a pointed argument that cities - not nation-states - must take the lead in fighting climate change.
Una critica radicale all'idea di guerra preventiva a cui Berber oppone il modello di una democrazia del futuro, questa sì "preventiva". L'autore ripercorre la storia della politica e della diplomazia americana e condanna la scelta di Bush di ricorrere all'uso delle armi come risposta al terrorismo. Barber evidenzia la tendenza a confondere la propaganda di un modello di società democratica con la reclamizzazione di una miscela seduttiva di lib...
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Colección: Manuales, 122A través de este libro el lector puede acercarse a algunas de las cuestiones que centran la discusión actual en torno a las consecuencias que la revolución tecnológica y comunicativa está teniendo en la esfera jurídico-política. Su variedad temática muestra, además, la amplitud de los efectos que esta nueva realidad está teniendo tanto en el ámbito regulatorio como en el de la articulación de lo ...
En este mundo superpoblado y ruidoso, donde habitan tantas personas, donde se cometen tantos delitos, donde estallan tantas guerras y donde el tiempo es siempre tan escaso, resulta casi imposible localizar y preservar un ámbito común en el que pueda prosperar una sociedad civil. ¿Dónde podemos ser nosotros mismos, vivir la vida, resolver nuestras diferencias, ser algo más que meros consumidores? Por todas partes sólo existen conflictos, aliena...
