...Sumita S. Chakravarty Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xx, 121 pp. $16.95 Copyright 1985: Regents of University of California 1985 9ovM ASIA BULL- Vol. V No. 2, Spring 1985...

...Firoozeh Papan-Matin Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation Barbara Slavin New York: St. Martin's, 2007 xi + 258 pp., $24.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution...

...Kabir Tambar Abstract This essay examines “professions of friendship”: efforts by populations who are targeted as enemies of the state to proclaim their historical fidelity to the state's foundation and preservation. Such declarations often reinscribe a rigid and often violently statist narrative...

... like this one index “environmental citizenship” premised on the recognition of common responsibility for a vulnerable environment. Both suggest nature’s physical properties—e.g., aquifers’ vulnerability to toxic wastes—seemed to have brought sworn enemies together, thereby exceeding or bypassing...

... right to respond decisively “without humanist or humanitarian invocation . . . the right to suspend right; the right to be outside the law.” 48 If enemy and friend must be decisively and concretely designated, then in this antiliberal reprise of imperialist authority that will or must speak its...

... and increase the Hindus. His Hindutva was consequently at war with orthodox Hinduism. Savarkar strikingly and at every juncture asked “the Hindus” to remodel themselves after his enemy, with whom he intensely identified: the Muslim man. Muslims, his reasoning went, were successful. They would trump Hindus...

... “Today Russians and Americans have a common, insidious and ever-present enemy. Its name is ‘international terrorism Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Kremlin Spokesman Background: Russia, Chechnya, and the West...

..., if one could do degradation of enemies and vanquished capi- something more self- conscious with it. 1. Daud Ali points out inter alia that “nearly all the the imperial polity . . . is intractable on every front in 3. Laksmanasena and his...

... of properties held by the Custodian of Enemy Properties has risen from a little over 2,000 in 2010 to more than 15,000 in 2017. References Agamben Giorgio . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1998 . Benjamin Walter . Reflections...

... become intensely charged nodes of attention. 5 The regimes of affective belonging that expectations of loyalty and sacrifice create may from this perspective be understood as a way of demarcating the boundaries of that crucial signifier “the people” on which modern sovereignty rests. The enemy gives...

..., the normalization of exception. The second genealogy of the state of emergency, and more generally the French exceptionalist logic, is that of metropolitan institutionalized exceptional justice targeting “terrorists” and “political enemies.” This exceptional justice can be defined in two ways. First, it can...

...- favorite, Mustafa Khan, and the evolution of his relation- ships with friends and enemies during conquest. Muqim and Zuhur circulated along with the Bija- 48. Ibid., 325 29. See also Sharma, The Nizam- shahi Persianate Garden, 159 60. 49. Astarabadi, Fut h t, fol. 4. See also Rieu, Catalogue...

.... Fight, resist and destroy 539 Israeli — are killed. your enemy in the name of force and victory.”14 The creators of these games posit them Players have to navigate through the as quasi documentaries, as is best explained on same real-life conditions that Lebanese...

... did not shine, did not appear. Husayn and his followers thirsted for water, but A giant wave, like a mountain, washed over his enemies thirsted for blood. This image con- the land, veys the antithetical moral values that are at play And the skies...

... propaganda and manipulation, as democracy slips into party politics. 35 In other words, liberal democracy and therefore a political community based on liberal democratic ideals are impossible, according to Schmitt. He proposed a concept of the political based on the friend–enemy distinction, which can...

... by “suspicion,” “fear of enemies,” and a sense of omnipresent “danger.” They refer to the enemy as a hostile criminal outside the “indivisible body of the Nation”; the existence of a lethal struggle with foes, implying dissidents; and the necessity of holding a vigilant gaze in all directions as a civic virtue...

... Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Russian Experts . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . ———. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2003 . ———. “ The Second World’s Third...

... Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? A Growing Number of Voices Say Yes .” National Public Radio , August 3 , 2019 . www.npr.org/2019/08/03/740604142 . 27. Povinelli, Empire of Love . On liberal protection, see Povinelli, “Bleak House: An Afterword,” 132–33 . 26. For enemy...

... as a movement municates the ever-­present and imminent danger toward the absolute Spirit, Rafsanjani asserts: of an enemy who is ready to strike and “behead” “The martyr is a great force that drives history the faith of his community. While he speaks of the towards God.” Using the metaphor of force...

... or by preventing them from being granted membership in the country where they reside.” 5 Within the context of double displacement—which was predicated upon the identification of Jews as Zionist sympathizers and spies in Iraq and as the enemy in Israel, given their Arabness—Iraqi Jews in the two films embarked...