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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher: Yale University Press

So, political theorist Benjamin Barber suggests: Let's give them more control over global policy. McWorld, sees cities as the best hope for solving global problems and safeguarding democracy. Nov 7, 2013 - If the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, has grown dysfunctional and obsolete, who can tackle these problems? €�Somalia: Why Orthodox Aid Policy Must Give Way to Battlefield Reality. Jul 27, 2013 - If mayors ruled the world : dysfunctional nations, rising cities /. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. €�The background issue for all mayors is that they are compelled to deal with the consequences of a system over which they have no power,” says the political theorist Benjamin Barber, author of If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities. Apr 22, 2014 - Barber, Benjamin. Dec 17, 2013 - Barber, author of the prescient 1996 book Jihad vs. May 29, 2014 - Cities Rising is The Nation's chronicle of those urban experiments. * * * An outpouring of books like If Mayors Ruled the World, Triumph of the City and The Metropolitan Revolutionhymns urban dynamism. "In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. Barber shows how these "urban homeboys" are solving pressing problems on their own turf -- and maybe in the world. Nov 5, 2013 - Review of If Mayors Ruled The World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities.