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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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Non-Fiction
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 Moïsi, 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. Moïsi 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.
Moïsi 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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