Befriending the Stranger
Beyond the Global Politics of Fear
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12923358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Dallmayr (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3366/jipt.2011.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W1977489816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
The process of globalisation and the so-called war on terror are two prominent features marking our present age. While the process of globalisation promises the prospect of moving beyond or across borders, the war on terror marks a return to fences, check-points, and dividing walls. Terror war is a global politics of fear, a politics conducted under the rigid border control between ‘us' and ‘them’. This paper examines the ominous development of fear in world politics from a number of angles. First, it explores the growing linkage of politics with terror war by tracing its roots ultimately to the friend-enemy distinction. Next, it discusses the shortcomings of the terror war syndrome, by turning to some prominent critics of this ideology. Finally, it examines possible ways pointing beyond this ideology, enlisting for this purpose a number of theologians and intellectuals, to arrive at the promising notions of ‘border-crossing’ and political-existential Grenzgänger or people who criss-cross multiple borders
Adversary · Computer security · Existentialism · Globalization · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Terrorism · War on terror · Law · Religion and Society Interactions
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Creative Democracy—The Task before Us
The Ethics of Democracy
The Concept of the Political
Integral Pluralism
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Boundaries in question
Soft power
Terrorism and Human Rights
Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror
The Concept of the Political
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |