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	Andre Gunder Frank: McWorld vs. Jihad Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As part and parcel of the one McWorld economic crisis, especially since the 1979-82 recession and during the 1980s "recovery," per capita national income declined 25 percent in Africa and nearly 15 percent in Latin America, which were thrust into a depression worse than that of the 1930s.
		However, this McWorld policy was at the cost of depression in all of Africa and Latin America, parts of Asia and the Middle East, and most of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, which it bankrupted.
		Unfortunately of course, the real McWorld connection between the two headlines and reports is not made by the IHT but is left for us to make: At the top of the page, now "East Asia Spurns West's Cultural Model" and supposedly reverts to Confuscianism.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /agfrank/mcworld.html (1808 words)

	Jihad Vs. McWorld
		For McWorld, it is the antipolitics of globalism: bureaucratic, technocratic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx predicted it would be) on the administration of things--with people, however, among the chief things to be administered.
		And if McWorld is indifferent to democracy, there is nonetheless a form of democratic government that suits global markets passably well--representative government in its federal or, better still, confederal variation.
		And democracy remains both a form of coherence as binding as McWorld and a secular faith potentially as inspiriting as Jihad.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~volgy/jihad.htm (4312 words)

	Argumentative Persuasive Topics - Terrorism - Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld
		Jihad vs. McWorld is, quite simply, an attempt to explain the surroundings that we are all living in as citizens of the world.
		McWorld is, in a few words, the strive of capitalism and corporations to spread their products to all people, maximizing profit.
		Similarly, in Jihad vs. McWorld, Barber argues that the drive for profit and image that was born in America lives at the expense of individuality, culture, and the human soul.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=11733 (1386 words)

	Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs
		Both "McWorld" and "Jihad" are in fact cultural forces in that their power is derived from their capacity to publicize images that hold the world's attention.
		McWorld and Jihad, however different they might appear to be, are called into being by the same process of economic globalization.
		By contrast, the culture of McWorld is unreflective and credulous in the videology it employs to manipulate public opinion.
	www.uvm.edu /~hst19/Online_Reading/Lecture_19.htm (2644 words)

	McWorld - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		McWorld is usually used by critics of globalization to describe a standardized world where McDonald's is the norm, and indigenous cultures and local businesses are sidelined.
		The terms McDonaldization and Coca-Colanization are used in a similar sense, where McDonald's and Coca Cola stand in for the negative aspects of globalization, such as the world wide uniformity in consumer choices and services, the expansion of Big Business at the expense of national and regional enterprises, as well as civic priorities.
		The term McWorld, initially used by McDonald's in its television commercials, by the mid-1990s had become a term of derision and criticism.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/McWorld (204 words)

	McWorld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McWorld is a term sometimes used to describe the spreading of McDonald's restaurants throughout the world as the result of globalization, and more generally to describe the effects of international McDonaldization of services and commercialization of goods and services as an element of globalization as a whole.
		McWorld was originally the name of a TV campaign for the restaurant by Leo Burnett that ran many of its ads during Saturday morning cartoons of the early '90s, featuring the exciting McDonald's-related happenings that would purportedly occur if kids ran the world.
		Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McWorld (442 words)

	Jihad vs. McWorld - 92.03
		For McWorld, it is the antipolitics of globalism: bureaucratic, technocratic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx predicted it would be) on the administration of things -- with people, however, among the chief things to be administered.
		And if retribalization is inhospitable to democracy, there is nonetheless a form of democratic government that can accommodate parochialism and communitarianism, one that can even save them from their defects and make them more tolerant and participatory: decentralized participatory democracy.
		And if McWorld is indifferent to democracy, there is nonetheless a form of democratic government that suits global markets passably well -- representative government in its federal or, better still, confederal variation.
	academic2.american.edu /~dfagel/BARBERJihadvMcWorld.html (4226 words)

	Jihad vs. McWorld
		The Enlightenment dream of a universal rational society has to a remarkable degree been realized—but in a form that is commercialized, homogenized, depoliticized, bureaucratized, and, of course, radically incomplete, for the movement toward McWorld is in competition with forces of global breakdown, national dissolution, and centrifugal corruption.
		For McWorld, it is the antipolitics of globalism: bureaucratic, technocratic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx predicted it would be) on the administration of things—with people, however, among the chief things to be administered.
		And if McWorld is indifferent to democracy, there is nonetheless a form of democratic government that suits global markets passably well—representative government in its federal or, better still, confederal variation.
	www.theatlantic.com /politics/foreign/barberf.htm (4321 words)

	Barber
		At the same time, by securing cultural diversity and a place for worship and faith insulated from McWorld's cultural monism, democracy can address the anxieties of those who fear secularist materialism and are committed to preserving their cultural and religious distinctiveness.
		McWorld's neo-liberal antagonism to all political regulation in the global sector, to all institutions of legal and political oversight, to all attempts at democratising globalisation and institutionalising economic justice looks to them like brute indifference to their welfare and their claims for justice.
		McWorld celebrates market ideology with its commitment to the privatisation of all things public and the commercialisation of all things private.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/icons/barber.html (2113 words)

	Rebuilding McWorld by Andre O. Jordan
		McWorld is the amalgamation of American capitalism and consumerism behavior by foreign nations and individuals.
		McWorld controls all these relics, since it strives to manipulate consumers’ behavior through the utilization of focus groups and the aforementioned media techniques, which are all conduits of it.
		In McWorld, these wasted resources are manifested in the power that is required to light up the neon signs, the super-sized lettering on companies name along with the splashing of various colors, and a touch of digital imagery under their names.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/joe/aojordan1.html (4539 words)

	Paris is Burning by Fareed Zakaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Many of his assertions about the frightening power of "McWorld" and its relentless thrust across the globe are supported by the evidence of...
		In a chapter on MTV called "McWorld's Noisy Soul" there is an ominous two-page world map, reminiscent of the geopolitical primers of yore, that shows most of the globe shaded in grey.
		Indeed, Jihad vs. McWorld can be read as a compendium of the social changes that a rising middle class has wrought on national cultures that were heretofore shaped by upper-class rituals and symbols.
	www.fareedzakaria.com /articles/other/nr_96.html (2981 words)

	Jihad vs
		The old interwar national state based on territory and political sovereignty looks to be a mere transitional development.
		It is less the goods than the brand names that do the work, for they convey life-style images that alter perception and challenge behavior.
		As we are already beginning to see, many nations may survive in the long term only as confederations that afford local regions smaller than "nations" extensive jurisdiction.
	www.mrhailey.org /comparative/jihadmcworld.htm (2681 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Benjamin R. Barber - Jihad Vs. McWorld at Epinions.com
		McWorld and Jihad respectively -- now threaten to dissolve the relevance of the nation-state, "the only guarantor of conditions that have permitted democracy to fluorish." As Barber envisions it, democratic nations may still be heading toward Orwellian ruin despite the presumed death of totalitarianism.
		Barber's rampant McWorld, "a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce" and the emerging "infotainment telesector," clearly plays a large part in our modern civic crisis.
		Neither is Barber's discussion of Jihad, his sound bite for the ethnic fragmentation of identity, particularly illuminating.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-2096-16999C85-3844DC4F-prod1 (709 words)

	Jihad vs. McWorld: Who is the Real Winner?
		Jihad vs. McWorld explores these issues, and the subsequent challenges posed by the struggle between the two forces with poignant, diverse examples, and ample supporting documentation.
		Jihad may be found in secessionist movements in Canada and Western Europe, in the skinheads and militias of the U.S. and unified Germany, and in the repression of Western ideologies in official China.
		Although he wrote Jihad vs. McWorld in 1995, before the late 90s hoopla about the "New" and "Internet" economies, Barber's identification of trends in the global arena is notably accurate.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/2/210 (747 words)

	sandiego.indymedia.org \| Benjamin Barber Addresses “Jihad vs. McWorld” at UCSD March 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Both “McWorld,” as Barber calls the materialist, secular world capitalism is creating in its own image; and “Jihad,” Barber’s name for the traditional-values response, threaten democracy — and only by globalizing democracy can we bring global capitalism under control and end the terrorist threat.
		“McWorld is in its essence materialistic, secular, often violent, homogenizing and destructive of pluralism,” he said.
		McWorld can’t because its prosperity is based on freedom from democratic control and accountability, and its insistence that “there are no citizens, only consumers” corrodes the basic public spirit needed to sustain popular self-rule.
	sandiego.indymedia.org /en/2002/03/787.shtml (1578 words)

	Jihad v. McWorld - Review Washington Monthly - Find Articles
		He pointedly argues that although "McWorld" and "Jihad" are in seeming opposition, the two forces are in fact partners, attacking democracies at their roots.
		There was a historical moment, right after the Berliners hacked down their wall, when the "McWorld" info-revolution seemed to have a distinctly human face.
		There is also more to "McWorld" fears than the vague, claustrophobic sense that all the world's becoming an American strip mall.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_11_27/ai_54469073 (795 words)

	Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		McWorld does manage to look pretty seductive in a world obsseed with Jihad.
		For McWorld, it is the antipolitics ofglobalism: bureaucratic, technoractic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx predicted it would be) on the administration of things--with people, however, among the chief things to be administered.
		And democracy remans both a form of coherence as binding as McWorld and a secular faith potentially as inspiriting as Jihad.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/PS/Finley/PS425/reading/Barber.html (4177 words)

	WowEssays.com - Mcworld Vs. Jihad
		McWorld is a term for the commercial collective of the world, and Jihad, an Arab word for “crusade”, is used to symbolize all of nationalist, fundamentalist, ethnocentric, and tribal rejections of McWorld.
		McWorld is a scenario of commercial and technological interdependence.
		To conclude, Jihad and McWorld are not really in competition, they compliment and balance each other out as Barber states in his writings.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ad1/eac239.shtml (473 words)

	Review: Mustard Seed vs. McWorld - Jack Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sine writes, 'Mustard Seed versus McWorld' is intended to enable Christians, particularly those in leadership, to more fully anticipate and more creatively respond to, the challenges of our global future in a way that advances the purposes of God's new order."
		"McWorld" is how Sine describes our current cultural perspective, one headed toward a global market.
		We assume that the "good news" simply means "saving souls." We may have had some success in behavior modification but have gained little ground in transformed living.
	www.presence.tv /cms/mcworld.shtml (668 words)

	Amazon.com: Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World: Books: Benjamin Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		McWorld refers to "post-national or even anti-national" corporate values; Jihad refers to most any ethnically-derived movement, and most of his examples come from the remnants of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
		Aside from this concern, and his lack of concrete solutions and elusive, often inaccessible writing style, Barber tends to exaggerate the extent to which corporate influence is mitigated by both government and civic organizations, especially in the Western democracies.
		In his never-ending examples of how recent cultural trends are damaging the freedom and intelligence of the masses, Barber merely comes across as a condescending snob who thinks his own interests are superior, or a curmudgeon who thinks everything was better back in the good old days, or both.
	www.amazon.com /Jihad-vs-McWorld-Globalism-Tribalism/dp/0345383044 (3206 words)

	Cover story -- Essay: Islam vs. McWorld
		McWorld is a comprehensive worldview, a way of life.
		Religions that contribute to the personal virtues McWorld requires of its denizens are “tolerant” and “moderate.” Religions that would challenge McWorld are “fanatical” and “extremist.” Now that Buffy and Bart are raining down on traditionally Muslim societies from satellites, Islam finds itself in McWorld’s cross hairs.
		There is another reason that adjusting to McWorld poses a greater challenge to Muslims than it has for Christians: Because of its origins and subsequent development, Islam itself is poorly suited to reconciling itself with modern secular pluralism.
	ncronline.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/032604/032604a.php (2841 words)

	Jihad vs. McWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The book's first part concerns McWorld, the ever-expanding service sector of the international economy, especially as it manifests itself in what Barber calls the "infotainment telesector," American in substance if not always in ownership.
		Such signs of commercial life represent not an expansion of economic opportunity but rather the onslaught of McWorld, which he repeatedly characterizes, without irony, as a new and insidious form of "totalitarianism." With its ability to "modify public attitudes" and to "precipitate private behaviors," McWorld predetermines our every choice, political or otherwise.
		With its "toxic exclusivity," Jihad lends itself to a civic life of "'we' thinking and 'we' action," one in which "democratic command structures" might be more fully involved in the "public choosing" of "fundamental social values." Barber specializes in such euphemisms for democratic tyranny.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9602/reviews/jihad.html (1277 words)

	CiteULike: Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jihad vs. McWorld is the term that distinguished writer and political scientist Benjamin R. Barber has coined to describe the powerful and paradoxical interdependence of these forces.
		Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism.
		Jihad vs. McWorld is an essential text for anyone who wants to understand our troubled present and the crisis threatening our future.
	www.citeulike.org /user/ajpope/article/262885 (1011 words)

	Jihad Vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber : Booksamillion.com (0345383044, Paperback)
		Jihad vs. McWorld is an analysis of the fundamental conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism.
		Benjamin R. Barber argues that if you look only at the business section of the daily newspaper, you would be convinced that the world was increasingly united, that borders were increasingly porous, that corporate mergers were steadily knitting the globe into a single international market.
		Belonging by default to McWorld, everyone is compelled to enroll in Jihad.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0345383044 (246 words)

	Barber Reading #1
		McWorld." The Atlantic 269, 3 (March 1992): 53-62.
		For McWorld, it is the antipolitics of globalism: bureaucratic, technoractic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx predicted it would be) on the administration of things--with people, however, among the chief things to be administered.
		For Jihad, the antipolitics of tribalization has been explicitly antidemocratic: one-party dictatorship, government by military junta, theocratic fundamentalism--often associated with a version of the Fuhrerprinzip that empowers an individual to rule on behalf of a people.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /mazur/courses/reli125/Barber1.html (4235 words)

	Amazon.com: Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Noting that McWorld can serve Jihad, Barber sketches the rise of nationalism in European democracies, in central Europe's emerging democracies, in Islam and, intriguingly, in the American Christian right.
		McWorld, he writes, threatens democracy by deadening debate and accepting inequalities, while Jihad threatens democracy by sacrificing tolerance and deliberation.
		There are tons of empirical data, research, and historical footnotes in "Jihad Vs. McWorld." He provides and accurate and objective picture of what our world is transforming into today: the world is becoming smaller and more culturally homogenous.
	www.amazon.com /Jihad-vs-McWorld-Together-Democracy/dp/0812923502 (3332 words)

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