The Geopolitics Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World

As a scientist, I prefer reductionism. I like when someone attempts to explain tough problems using few basic principles. Of course, with this approach, we lose lot of the details but we achieve better understanding of the problem from within. Moïsi introduces emotions as additional variables for ex......more

In 1993, Samuel Huntington introduced the theory that conflicts would emanate from frictions along race, ethnic, and religious lines. In particular, he outlined the potential clashes among the western, muslim, Confucian, and orthodox civilizations. I still remember the first time I read that article......more

What does emotion have to do with geopolitics? Everything, according to Dominique Moïsi, author of The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope Are Reshaping the World (Anchor Doubleday). Moïsi, a French political scientist, Harvard professor, and son of an Auschwitz survi......more

I'm only giving this book three stars because I'm glad topics like this are finally being treated in somewhat mainstream literature. Otherwise, I found this book rather superficial. In his attempt to make the book accessible by many, Moïsi fails to provide any sort of ontological and methodological......more

Finally finished it (it has taken a while...). Interesting to read in 2018 - and to wonder about optimistic/pessimistic scenarios, outlined by the author in 2009... Overall, a very good book and ideas to think about.......more