Fear of an internal enemy is manufactured to secure consent for empire

Evidence

The end goal is to win consent for an imperial agenda through a process that orchestrates fear of the enemy within and preempts criticisms of empire-building. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 491

Categorization

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