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The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.
In his famous 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, politics scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of issue in the post–Freezing War world wouldn't normally be mainly ideological or economical, but social. In The Geopolitics of Feelings Dominique Moïsi, a leading expert on international affairs, demonstrates that our post-9/11 world has become divided by more than social problem lines between countries and civilizations. Moïsi brilliantly chronicles the way the geopolitics of today is seen as a a “clash of emotions,” and how cultures of dread, humiliation, and expectation are reshaping the globe.
Moïsi contends that both United States and European countries have been dominated by concerns of the “other” and of their lack of a national individuality and purpose. Instead of being united by their concerns, the twin pillars of the West are more regularly divided by them—or, alternatively, by bitter debates over how best to confront or transcend them. For Muslims and Arabs, the mixture of historical grievances, exclusion from the economical benefit of globalization, and civil and religious conflicts extending using their company homelands to the Muslim diaspora have created a culture of humiliation that is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. In the meantime, Asia has been able to concentrate on building a much better future and seizing the economical effort from the American-dominated West and so creating a fresh culture of expectation.
Do these emotions represent underlying social tendencies characteristic of particular regions and populations today? How will these differing emotions influence the politics, social, and social conflicts that roil our world? How do the West transcend its dread and avoid slipping into protectionism or militarism? What can the Muslim world do to overcome is legacy of humiliation? Will China and India manage to maintain their position as the cultures of expectation? And exactly what will the effect of the world economical problems be? By delineating the necessity of confronting emotions to comprehend our changing world and deciphering the generating emotions behind our social variations, The Geopolitics of Feelings presents a provocative new point of view on globalization.
