Fear's empire : war, terrorism, and democracy ([New ed.])

This hard-hitting but pragmatic critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy exposes the folly of its agenda of preventive war, its support of dictatorship and its imposition of democracy on vanquished enemies. "The fear of terrorism instilled in Americans after September 11, [Benjamin Barber] argues, has allowed America to run roughshod over the world, alienate our allies and engender hostility." Washington Post Book World