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Traces the course of hate-related international violence throughout the past decade, citing the role of modern communications technologies and advanced weaponry in cultural warfare while explaining how the Bush administration's foreign policy has reinforced anti-American sentiments.
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A World Ignited is about the surge of anger that has swept the world in the last decade, its myriad causes, its toll in lives and human misery. This anger is amplified by modern, especially television and the Internet, and made more lethal by modern weaponry, and unprecedented tactics that strive for mass death and anguish. The authors conclude in an upbeat manner with a look at the politics of hope and what can be done to halt, and even reverse, this cacophony of hate.
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