What we are seeing along the most conflictual of the civilizational fault lines is not so much a civilizational conflict as a conflict over alternative political systems.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ self-aware refashioning of the nuclear taboo draws attention to stigmatization processes in international politics.
Identity politics has opened up the space for civilizations to reassert themselves as crucial discursive vectors of contemporary antagonisms.
The UN and moderate Muslims have stressed that interreligious and intercultural dialogue is the way forward. But, will politicians act accordingly?
In IR debates, an epistemic challenge to the Westernist and the radical Orientalist orientations could come from a clear-eyed reassessment of our past wars.
Foreign policy is usually not considered relevant in Brazil’s domestic agenda but it is time to realize that the country is part of the same globalised world.
Why do we associate resistance with violence, despite the fact that nonviolent revolt is common and far more effective than violent insurgency?
India and China both seem to be simultaneously moving upward on relative power trajectories while sustaining a rivalry which will further magnify.
The question becomes not whether Islam is a threat to stability but whether radicalization within diverse cultures is at the heart of whipping up the very conflict they seek to end.
International law remains an under-researched topic in the literature on Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’. This is remarkable since international law itself was born out of such a clash.
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