The West’s bordered independence fails because its inside now contains the enemy

Evidence

The alien in this case threatens to penetrate the native group and fuse with it – if preventive measures are not set out and vigilantly observed. The alien, therefore, threatens the unity and the identity of the alien group, not so much by confounding its control over a territory or its freedom to act in the familiar way, but by blurring the boundary of the territory itself and effacing the difference between the familiar (right) and the alien (wrong) way of life. This is the ‘enemy in our midst’ case – one that triggers a vehement boundary-drawing bustle, which in its turn generates a thick fall-out of antagonism and hatred to those found or suspected guilty of double loyalty and sitting astride the barricade. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 188 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

At the start of the war China proposed a mutual security pact with Russia (vaguely reminiscent of the Hitler-Stalin pact). Chinese successes, however, have just the opposite effect on Russia than they had on Japan. The prospect of Chinese victory and total Chinese dominance in East Asia terrifies Moscow. As Russia moves in an anti-Chinese direction and begins to reinforce its troops in Siberia, the numerous Chinese settlers in Siberia interfere with these movements. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 881 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Halliday continues his dismissal of “Islam” as an analytical category when he goes on to note that “political argument about the ‘West’ versus ‘the rest’ turns out, on closer examination, to be a conflict between two different interpretations and variants of the Western political tradition itself” (Halliday, 1996:5). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3515 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: West-versus-rest political conflict is an intra-Western ideological dispute — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3515; The enemy-in-our-midst threatens identity by blurring boundaries, not controlling territory — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 188; A shared enemy cannot hold alliance partners whose ambitions conflict — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 881

Related

• A shared enemy cannot hold alliance partners whose ambitions conflict (similarity 0.83)
• West-versus-rest political conflict is an intra-Western ideological dispute (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The enemy-in-our-midst threatens identity by blurring boundaries, not controlling territory #qualifies (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 188
• A shared enemy cannot hold alliance partners whose ambitions conflict #corroborates (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 881
• West-versus-rest political conflict is an intra-Western ideological dispute #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3515