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Benjamin R. Barber (born August 2, 1939) is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, ''Jihad vs. McWorld'' and 2013's ''If Mayors Ruled the World''. ==Career== Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the President and Founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Rutgers University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 From 2007–2012, he was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. As a political theorist, Barber argues for a renewed focus on civil society and engaged citizenship as tools for building effective democracy, particularly in the post-Cold War world. His current work examines the failure of nation-states to address global problems, and argues that cities and intercity associations are more effectively addressing shared concerns. Benjamin Barber has been a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy since 2005. Barber was an outside adviser to President Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential campaign. He has advised political parties and political leaders in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Italy on civic education and participatory institutions, and has done the same, more controversially,〔("Professors Paid by Qaddafi: Providing 'Positive Public Relations'" )〕〔Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, "Gadhafi paid millions to U.S. firms to polish his global image", ''CNN'', April 6, 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/06/libya.gadhafi.image/index.html?hpt=T2〕〔("Benjamin Barber Responds" )〕 with civil society and government leaders in Turkey, the Emirates, Libya and China. Barber was educated at Grinnell College (B.A., 1960) and Harvard University (M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1966), after earning certificates at Albert Schweitzer College (1959) and the London School of Economics (1957). Barber's father, Philip W. Barber, directed the New York City unit of the Federal Theatre Project, which produced plays including ''Macbeth'' and the Living Newspaper. His mother, Doris Frankel, was a playwright and wrote for television. Barber himself has also been active as a playwright, lyricist (libretto for George Quincy's opera ''Home and the River'') and film-maker (''The Struggle for Democracy'', with Patrick Watson; ''Music Inn'', with Ben Barenholtz). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Barber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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