The launch of the book “North American Foreign Policy and Jihadism“ will happen at the institution, Tuesday 19 February.

IDP Professor of Social Sciences, Danilo Porfírio, launches his book “North American Foreign Policy and Jihadism” at IDP. The book discusses the role of the United States in the formation of religious political movements. The event will take place on Tuesday, February 19th.

The book historically addresses American foreign policy action in the Middle East, mainly in the second half of the 20th century and what is the connection between this North American political action in the Middle East and the formation of religious political insurgency movements that use the resource of terror, called jihadist movements.

According to the author of the work, Danilo Porfírio, the relevance of the book is in combating hate speech and can be divided into two parts. “The focus at first is to understand that American foreign policy action represents an attempt, a universalist claim to bring to the world the values, principles and precepts of the North American way of living that they themselves call authentic modernity”, explains the teacher

Secondly, the work shows the clumsy implementation of these values ​​within the Middle Eastern space. “These clumsy actions, in some way, were instruments of symbolic violence against local Islamic communities, where their identity, culture and way of life were treated as inferior. Mainly from neocolonialism with the Europeans and later with the North Americans, from the rise of the USA in the 1st and 2nd world wars. Therefore, we are going to analyze Islam and how these terrorist movements emerged from Islam”, concludes the Author.

Service

Book launch “North American Foreign Policy and Jihadism”

Date: 02/19/19 - 6:30 pm

Location: IDP - 607 south - Living area on the 3rd floor

*The event is free.