Geopolitical Amnesia : The Rise of the Right and the Crisis of Liberal Memory

How a rising right in the United States and Europe idolizes strength, masculinity, and even war. Far-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Donald Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest "first" are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriarchy, masculinity, and strength. Putting these dramatic shifts in contemporary American and European foreign policy into wider historical and intellectual context, __Geopolitical Amnesia__ explores the liberal crisis beneath the resurgence of far-right ideas. La 4ème de couverture indique : "Far right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest 'first' are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriarchy, masculinity, and strength. Putting these dramatic shifts in contemporary American and European foreign policy into wider historical and intellectual context, Geopolitical Amnesia explores the liberal crisis beneath the resurgence of far right ideas. Drawing on memory studies, it addresses the ways in which the new geopolitics intersects and interplays with an exhausted and amnesiatic liberalism. Scholars with expertise on national and regional ideological traditions look at contemporary memory wars - competing revisionist histories - from Washington to Warsaw, and from the Anglosphere to Southern, Western, and Eastern Europe. They address the changing conditions of memory and nostalgia and discuss how and why it matters that the new geopolitics takes place in an age of accelerated, fragmented, and digitalized global media. Timely and ambitious, this accessible collection reveals the far right ideas behind the return of geopolitics and the crisis of liberalism that paved its way." "Far right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest 'first' are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriarchy, masculinity, and strength. Putting these dramatic shifts in contemporary American and European foreign policy into wider historical and intellectual context, Geopolitical Amnesia explores the liberal crisis beneath the resurgence of far right ideas. Drawing on memory studies, it addresses the ways in which the new geopolitics intersects and interplays with an exhausted and amnesiatic liberalism. Scholars with expertise on national and regional ideological traditions look at contemporary memory wars - competing revisionist histories - from Washington to Warsaw, and from the Anglosphere to Southern, Western, and Eastern Europe. They address the changing conditions of memory and nostalgia and discuss how and why it matters that the new geopolitics takes place in an age of accelerated, fragmented, and digitalized global media. Timely and ambitious, this accessible collection reveals the far right ideas behind the return of geopolitics and the crisis of liberalism that paved its way."-- Provided by publisher Far-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Donald Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest "first" are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriarchy, masculinity, and strength. 0Putting these dramatic shifts in contemporary American and European foreign policy into wider historical and intellectual context, 'Geopolitical Amnesia' explores the liberal crisis beneath the resurgence of far-right ideas. Drawing on memory studies, it addresses the ways in which the new geopolitics intersects and interplays with an exhausted and amnesiatic liberalism. Scholars with expertise on national and regional ideological traditions look at contemporary memory wars - competing revisionist histories - from Washington to Warsaw, and from the Anglosphere to Southern, Western, and Eastern Europe. They address the changing conditions of memory and nostalgia and discuss how and why it matters that the new geopolitics takes place in an age of accelerated, fragmented, and digitalized global media. 0Timely and ambitious, this accessible collection reveals the far-right ideas behind the return of geopolitics and the crisis of liberalism that paved its way Cover GEOPOLITICAL AMNESIA Title Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Rise of the Right and the Crisis of Liberal Memory PART ONE | ANGLO-AMERICAN AMNESIA 1 After Empire: The “Geopolitical Mind” of the Anglo-American Right 2 After Liberalism? The Paleoconservative Roots of the New American Nationalism 3 “A Test of Character”: The Positive Psychology of War PART TWO | CONTINENTAL MEMORY WARS 4 Post-Liberal Visions: Memory, Virility, and Geopolitics on the French New Right 5 What Liberalism? Russia’s Conservative Turn and the Liberal Order 6 German Memory Culture between the Right and the Mainstream 7 “The Long Night of the Second Republic”: Geopolitical Amnesia in Italy PART THREE | THE NEW GEOPOLITICS 8 The Forgotten Pragmatism of the United Nations: A Halfway House between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism 9 The New Geopolitics: Towards a More Virulent World? Contributors Index