PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Siege Mentality, International Development, Geopolitics
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Growing tension between western civilization; christianity and modernization ideologies (white/national/lead culture), and the islamic (code for foreign/immigrant/ arab culture) Progressive, liberal, secular culture: vs. traditional, conservative, religious, extreme culture. We have seen a shift in recent years. A new global situation in which the attributes and interests of core and periphery are not just defined by economics performance, but increasingly by cultural/religious markers. Domestic effects of increasing internationalization/integraion/diversity: white fears of losing hegemony status (trump/breitbart) o. Imported effects of a new challenge to western domination of world affairs: o o o o o. Loss of international reputation/good will the west formerly enjoyed. Reaction: siege mentality (companies turn away from us toward china) Surveillance, civil rights, amiguous role of the state as protector/threat. Developed by samual p. huntingdon in a lecture. In the post-cold war period, we have a new geo-politics between islam and christianity. No longer a capitalist vs communist "age of ideology"
