Up to now we have globalized the burdens and vices of this world Cover Image

Până acum am globalizat poverile şi viciile acestei lumi
Up to now we have globalized the burdens and vices of this world

Author(s): Benjamin R. Barber
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: McWorld; Jihad; national state; globalization; national identity;

Summary/Abstract: The national state between two contrary types of forces – the globalization and integration tendency (McWorld) and the so-called Jihad – any religious, ethnic or archaic forces that create different identities able to destroy the national state. The national state, nevertheless, remains the symbol of political identity, the spine of democracy and the warrant of stability.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 49-50
  • Page Range: 45-46
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: Romanian
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