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THE GEOPOLITICS OF EMOTION
By: Dominique Moisi
How Cultures Of Fear, Humiliation, And Hope Are Reshaping The World
Doubleday
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 0385523769
EAN: 9780385523769
Hardcover
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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 postβCold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique MoΓ―si, 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. MoΓ―si brilliantly chronicles how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a βclash of emotions,β and how cultures of fear, humiliation, and hope are reshaping the world.
MoΓ―si contends that both the United States and Europe have been dominated by fears of the βotherβ 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 themβor, 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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