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In this relatively concise, highly readable book, John Dryzek sets out on a rather ambitious task. "One of my goals in this book is to show that an approach to democracy emphasizing dispersed and competent control over the engagement of discourses in international public spheres is feasible and attractive. I will try to show that transnational discursive democracy can address all the conflicts I have outlined in this chapter including the very hardest cases that a divided world presents: terrorism and counter-terror, the alleged clash of civilizations and violent conflict in divided societies" (26). Dryzek then proceeds to take on a variety of issues, including market liberalism, globalization, anti-corporate globalization, realism, human rights, counter-terrorism, neoconservatism, industrialism, sustainable development and discourses of identity with the objective of demonstrating that transnational deliberative democracy can contribute to a resolution of the problems the world faces. Along the way the reader is treated to a number of interesting observations and arguments. Dryzek provides a very interesting discussion of the discourses surrounding the "war on terror," including such things as the mix of market and military metaphors, the difficulty if near impossibility of segmenting audiences given globalization's ability to make every statement an instantaneous YouTube moment, as well as...