The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope Are Reshaping the World - Rilegato

Moisi, Dominique

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ISBN 10: 0385523769 ISBN 13: 9780385523769

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2009

Riassunto

In 1993 Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations offered a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In THE GEOPOLITICS OF EMOTION, Dominique Moïsi brilliantly demonstrates that we are now in the midst of a “clash of emotions.”

Moïsi contends that both the United States and Europe are dominated by a fear of the “other” and of the loss of their national identity and purpose. For Muslims and Arabs, the combination of historical grievances, exclusion from the economic boon of globalization, and civil and religious warfare extending from their homelands to the Muslim diaspora have created a culture of humiliation that is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. As the West and the Muslim world lock horns, Asia, able to concentrate on building a better future, has become “the culture of hope.”

By understanding the driving emotions behind our cultural differences, THE GEOPOLITICS OF EMOTION offers a better understanding of the world in which we live and perhaps a more peaceful solution to the ignorance and differences that plague us.

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Praise for The Geopolitics of Emotion

“An astonishingly creative response to Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations...[a] groundbreaking analysis...This elegant thesis presents the very real consequences of the “Clash of Emotions” and concludes with well-reasoned if tentative conjecture about how these currents will shift in years to come.” --Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“This is a book rich in intelligence and insight. Today's reflex is to strive for simplicity. Dominique Moisi performs the infinitely more valuable task of making sense of the cacophony of complexities that shape our world.” Philip Stephens, Financial Times

“This is Moisi at his best: original, challenging and full of elegance.  This little book shows how globalization has forged a new world disorder defined as much by clashes of emotions, as divisions over interests and power.” Mark Leonard, author of What Does China Think?

“Human beings are not automata concerned solely with maximising wealth or power. They are bundles of emotions. In this scintillating essay, the French analyst, Dominique Moisi, explores the role of three potent emotions - hope, humiliation and fear - in shaping the world we live in today and might live in tomorrow.” Martin Wolf, author of Fixing Global Finance

L'autore:

DOMINIQUE MOÏSI is a founder and now a senior advisor to the French Institute of International Affairs, IFRI. He writes a column for the Financial Times and contributes to Foreign Affairs. He lives in Paris.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0385523769
• ISBN 13: 9780385523769
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176