Globalization and Social Disorder

Like some ancient god devouring his subjects the modern world economy
makes people into devoted consumers everywhere it penetrates and
in so doing dissolves the bonds that have made societies viable in the
past. Manufacture and trade shift continually from one country and region
to another, dispossessing people from the land and sending them to cities
in search of opportunities that cease to exist within a single generation.
Reviewing what is known about suicide bombers the book evaluates the
hypothesis that the resulting moral and psychological crisis causes some
individuals to engage in violent attacks upon imagined enemies.