MC WORLD AND JIHAD

Democracy and terrorism



Democracy and terrorism

Introduction

Democracy, as a struggle for equality and justice, is a perpetual process "in crisis", but the critical challenges to those faced today democracies are unique, for undetermined opponents behave and be visible to headless develops within a global society in which democratic nation-states have become agents of social justice ineffective.

The paradox of the new century lies in the globalization of financial institutions, fiscal and trade (as well as the ideologies of privatization and globalization that support them) and in the absence of a globalization of civic and democratic institutions able to regulate and framing. Capitalism has left his “box”, the nation-state, which traditionally was kept (relatively, of course), and civic righteous has been released in an international arena where it has run wild, to the detriment of the nations, which have lagged behind, and citizens of the world who do not have tools and effective regulatory control for this international fight.

Democratic institutions, including those that are solid on the inside of the nations (which is not always the case). Cannot assume their role in global arenas where there is nothing but power relations. Even international institutions like the Breton Woods outputs (World Bank, IMF, WTO), which are technically subject to supervision by the Member States have been allowed to become an instrument of private economic interests, which in many cases control, not only the world market, but also for national democratic governance: just look, for example, the role of money in U.S. election campaigns or the inability of European social democratic parties to avoid the ideology of privatization and its devastating war against the public (Chalk, 1998, p. 105).

My own view is that the global crisis of democracy, precipitated by globalization cannot be countered by strategies “anti-globalization”. Requires more imaginative deployment of global political economy, democratization in a democratic framework, not a democratic country, but in a new global framework whose contours need to be defined. The European experience, even though it tends to a civic economic integration may give some hints about an appropriate response. The American co federalism offers another perspective. The expanding international civic movement is also promising, as soon as get more adequately address the challenge of counterbalance the economic power of the global market players. Finally, the role of the traditional apparatus of the United Nations, including various forms tinged by ideology and weakened by the refusal of the great powers, especially U.S. to participate in it (see the recent case of the conference on Racism in Durban), must be examined again to see if we can play a significant role.

Book Review

Benjamin wrote this book in 1995. If we look at the title of the book it seems, that it is completely about the Muslims. This is not the fact; instead Barber goes very deep and explains that Jihad is a much generalized concept. In his book, he did not directly relate Jihad with Muslims; he just explains the concept of ...