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Jihad Vs Mcworld Summary

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n the reading of Jihad Vs. McWorld, Barber focuses on the relationship between Jihad and McWorld, and suggests that the world, as it is being squeezed between these opposing forces, is moving away from conscious and collective human control and toward anarchy. Jihad is driven by parochial hatreds and aims to re-create subnational and ethnic borders from within the nation-state. McWorld universalizes markets and effectively makes borders porous from without. Both, therefore, “make war on the sovereign nation-state and thus undermine the nation-state’s democratic institutions.” Moreover, Barber also argues that there are several imperatives that make up the McWorld, or the globalization of politics : a market imperative, a resource imperative,
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