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Friends, Foes and Understanding
The language of political economy, international relations and almost the entire range of social sciences remain trapped in metaphors of fear and anxiety that in turn have led to a security-centric universe. Dialogue, a critically existential encounter and an ethical attitude are ruled out. The need then is to go beyond the authoritarian texts and their 'anthropological truths' to find out how in a world rife with contentious politics, themes of dialogue, trust and accommodation can work themselves out.
On the road to science, social science has lost what politics formerly was capable of providing as prudence.
– Jurgen Habermas
[Habermas 1996:44]
Dear Reader,
