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The Geopolitics of Emotion - How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World (Paperback)
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The Geopolitics of Emotion - How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World (Paperback)
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The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional
impact of globalization.
In his celebrated 1993 book" The Clash of Civilizations, "
political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental
source of conflict in the post-Cold War world would not be
primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In" The
Geopolitics of Emotion" Dominique Moisi, a leading authority on
international affairs, demonstrates that our post-9/11 world has
become divided by more than cultural fault lines between nations
and civilizations. Moisi brilliantly chronicles how the geopolitics
of today is characterized by a "clash of emotions," and how
cultures of fear, humiliation, and hope are reshaping the world.
Moisi contends that both the United States and Europe have been
dominated by fears of the "other" and of their loss of a national
identity and purpose. Instead of being united by their fears, the
twin pillars of the West are more often divided by them--or,
rather, by bitter debates over how best to confront or transcend
them. For Muslims and Arabs, the combination of historical
grievances, exclusion from the economic boon of globalization, and
civil and religious conflicts extending from their homelands to the
Muslim diaspora have created a culture of humiliation that is
quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Meanwhile, Asia has
been able to concentrate on building a better future and seizing
the economic initiative from the American-dominated West and so
creating a new culture of hope.
Do these emotions represent underlying cultural tendencies
characteristic of particular regions and populations today? How
will these varying emotions influence the political, social, and
cultural conflicts that roil our world? How can the West transcend
its fear and avoid sliding into protectionism or militarism? What
can the Muslim world do to overcome is legacy of humiliation? Will
China and India manage to maintain their status as the cultures of
hope? And what will the effect of the world economic crisis be? By
delineating the necessity of confronting emotions to understand our
changing world and deciphering the driving emotions behind our
cultural differences, " The Geopolitics of Emotion" presents a
provocative new perspective on globalization.
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