Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World
Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World is a book by Benjamin Barber, which examines not only the economic, but cultural and religious aspects of globalization. He proposes one current of "a current narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues. The second paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — MTV, Macintosh and McDonald's — pressing together into one homegeneous theme park....caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together only at the very same moment.[1]
Part I: the New World of McWorld
The Old Economy and the Birth of a New McWorld
===The Resource Imperative: the passing of autarky and the fall of the west
=The Industrial Sector and the Rise of the East
From Hard Goods to Soft Goods
From Soft Goods to Service
Television and MTV: McWorld's Noisy Soul
Teleliterature and the Theme Parking of McWorld
Who Owns McWorld? The Media Merger Frenzy
Part II. The Old World of Jihad
Jihad vs. McWorld or Jihad via McWorld
Jihad within McWorld: "The Democracties"
China and the Not Necessarily Democratic Pacific Rim
Essential Jihad: Islam and Fundamentalism
Part III. Jihad vs. McWorld
Jihad and McWorld in the New World Disorder
Wild Capitalism vs. Democracy
Capitalism vs. Democracy in Russia
The Colonization of East Germany by McWorld
Security Global Democracy in the World of McWorld
References
- ↑ Benjamin Barber (1996), Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World, Ballantine, ISBN 034538304, p. 4