John Kerry's emphasis on developing international alliances to address world problems was a welcome suggestion (despite his need to still appear eager to kill all enemies) in an age of increasing isolationist impulses and fundamentalist repression. Could this be a return to a saner politics than the Bush "my way or the highway" "right even when wrong" "never deviate from the plan" "questions and reflection cause confusion" political mindset?
Open Democracy
"The crisis of universalism: America and radical Islam after 9/11"
Fred Halliday
In a trenchant analysis of the post-9/11 world, Fred Halliday documents the two-sided assault both by the United States and its fundamentalist enemies on universal principles. Can citizens of the world retrieve a confident, humane politics from beneath the rubble?
Crisis of Universalism
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