Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism by Benjamin Barber

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. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are tearing apart–and bringing together–the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it depends.