Culture of Enmity: The Discursive Struggle for Taiwan in the Making of the New Cold War

Alain Brossat is a French teacher, researcher and long-time activist. Recently, he has been Visiting Professor at the Department of History at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, 2021-2022) and Visiting Professor at the International Institute for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan, 2018-2021). He is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University Paris 8, where he also received is PhD in Philosophy. His teaching is focused on political philosophy and contemporary philosophy.Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Cofund Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Previously, he has been Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan, 2023), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, 2022). He received a PhD in Social Research and Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan, 2021). His area of expertise is contemporary political theory and discourse analysis.

• Introduction.- Resisting the Culture of Enmity.- To Resist within Language.- To Eradicate the Culture of Enmity.- A War of Words: The Construction of the Anti-China Narrative.- The Schmittian Turn of Global Democracy.- A Pandemic of Sinophobia.- What Is Happening In Xinjiang? An Epistemological Challenge.- The New Clothes of Hegemonism.- “Large Space” and the New Cold War.- The Effects of the New Cold War in the Taiwan Strait- The Thorny Issue of Taiwanese Sovereignty.- Taiwan as a Field of Disinformation.- The Little Soldiers of the New Cold War in East Asia.- Taiwan in a Comparative Perspective: Is it Gibraltar, Switzerland, Or Ukraine?.- How War Fall on Us.