Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Towards a Framework of Analysis The Enemy in the Ancient World The Enemy in the Long Middle Age The Enemy in the US (Foreign) Political Culture The Enemy in Russian (Soviet) Political Culture Carl Schmitt, the Enemy, and the European Union Identity Politics on Borderlands: The Cases of Finland, Karelia, and Lapland Overcoming the Enemy Bibliography

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Examines the Western tradition in which political conflicts are seen as struggles between good and evil.

About the Author

VILHO HARLE is Professor of International Relations at University of Lapland in Finland. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1996-1997. Harle has authored or edited more than ten books and journal issues, including Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World (Greenwood Press, 1998).

Reviews

?[t]hought-provoking, fascinating, stimuating and controversial in the best sense of the word. It deserves a wide audience and it deserves to be answered by new scholars, drawn into intellectual maelstrom it has generated.?-Scandinavian Economic History Review

?As an interesting catalog of ideas on the ways in which evil is represented in a variety of cultures, as manifest in the enemy, or Other, the book servies a useful purpose and is a valuable resource.?-American Political Science Review

"�t�hought-provoking, fascinating, stimuating and controversial in the best sense of the word. It deserves a wide audience and it deserves to be answered by new scholars, drawn into intellectual maelstrom it has generated."-Scandinavian Economic History Review

"As an interesting catalog of ideas on the ways in which evil is represented in a variety of cultures, as manifest in the enemy, or Other, the book servies a useful purpose and is a valuable resource."-American Political Science Review

"[t]hought-provoking, fascinating, stimuating and controversial in the best sense of the word. It deserves a wide audience and it deserves to be answered by new scholars, drawn into intellectual maelstrom it has generated."-Scandinavian Economic History Review