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Ethnoreligious Otherings And Passionate Conflicts

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Departing from the mainstream practice and conventional wisdom of materialist and rationalist accounts of internal and intrastate conflicts, Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts demonstrates how and why emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions are just as powerful and useful in understanding and explaining these phenomena. By uncovering the invisible albeit concrete emotive, symbolic, and perceptual causal mechanisms underpinning ethnoreligious otherings and the resulting protracted violent conflicts, this book aims to help address the incongruence between how the actual actors operating within these contexts think and act, and the existing theories and models of how they are expected to behave. Accordingly, Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts has three main goals. First, to highlight the centrality of emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions in providing a more holistic and realistic understanding of otherings and conflicts. Second, to illustrate how the ethnoreligious othering framework developed and applied in the study bolsters and advances process tracing explanations by systematically incorporating context-specific intersubjective meanings into causal accounts of the events under investigation. And third, to emphasize the importance of recognizing religion and nationalism as legitimate constituents and instruments of contemporary realpolitik by underlining their enduring security utility and essence at individual, group, and state levels. The causal mechanisms driving ethnoreligious otherings and passionate conflicts are simultaneously emitting and are propelled by deeply entrenched emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions; achieving durable peace and lasting settlement requires reconciliation initiatives and regulation strategies that directly and unapologetically incorporate and address these neglected “immaterial” and “irrational” forces.

To feel is to believe: China, United States, and the emotional beliefs of Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Imagined Insecurities in Imagined Communities: Manufacturing the Ethnoreligious Others as Security Threats

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Duterte method: A neoclassical realist guide to understanding a small power’s foreign policy and strategic behaviour in the Asia-Pacific

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The fault in Japan's stars: Shinzo Abe, North Korea, and the quest for a new Japanese constitution

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Explaining the three-way linkage between populism, securitization, and realist foreign policies: President Donald Trump and the pursuit of ``America first'' doctrine

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

East and South China Seas Maritime Dispute Resolution and Escalation: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Small Powers and Trading Security: Contexts, Motives and Outcomes

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This book examines why and how small powers link their security interests and trade agendas, and how security threats influence the facilitation and outcome of their trade activities. In doing so, it analyses the increasingly complex connections between trade and security, demonstrating how these linkages affect the overall security of four small but important states in East Asia. Focusing on the role of high levels of internal and external insecurities, marginal geo-economic size and peripheral geopolitical position, and multidimensional and multidirectional security contexts and threats, the author concludes that for every security enhancement that a linkage creates a consequent security risk is generated. In other words, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines are effectively trading their security. This innovative book will appeal to political scientists, economists, and security and trade experts.

Trading in Vain? Investigating the Philippines' Development-oriented National Security and Free Trade Linkages

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A Costly Affirmation: Exploring Malaysia's One-Sided Domestic Security Dilemma

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Crouching tiger, lurking dragon: understanding Taiwan's sovereignty and trade linkages in the twenty-first century

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Games, changes and fears: Exploring Taiwan's cross-Strait dilemma in the Twenty-First Century

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Trading in Paranoia: Exploring Singapore's Security-Trade Linkages in the Twenty-first Century

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A case for cohabitative security: The Philippine and Malaysian experience

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000