Jihad Vs. McWorld

By Benjamin R. Barber

The two axial principles of our age – tribalism and globalism – clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy.

1. What is Lebanonization?
2. What is McWorld? What is the authors thesis? Do you agree?
3. Was the Eastern European revolution ideological?

The Resource Imperative

4. What is autarky?

The Information Imperative

5. In the information-technology imperative who is dominating? Why?
6. Explain the place of democracy in McWorld.

The Ecological Imperative

7. What is the significance of the quote: “The world cannot afford your modernization; our has wrung it dry!”
8. What is Jihad in the author’s terms?

Jihad or Lebanonization of the World

9. What is the dichotomous nature of materialism?
10. What is the aim of the post Cold War wars?
11. Is Canada’s federation truly threatened as Barber mentions? Why does the date of this article matter in this assertion? Have things changed in the last decade?

The Darkening Future of Democracy

12. What are the positive’s and negative’s of McWorld Vs. Jihad?

The Confederal Option

13. Barber offers the concept of a confederal union. What is it?