A “New Middle East” Following 9/11 and the “Arab Spring” of 2011?—(Neo)-Orientalist Imaginaries Rejuvenate the (Temporal) Inclusive Exclusion Character of Jus Gentium

The resurgence of a deterministic mode representation mythologizing Arabs as figuring (threatening) Saracen by judging their epistemological commitments hostile to Enlightened reason-based ideals is demonstratively identifiable after 9/11, and more so following the Arab uprisings in 2011, when we notice that general, Muslim particular, was historicized “new barbarian” from which (liberal-secular) Westphalian society must be defended. Such neo-Orientalist representations disseminate powerful discursive (symbolic) articulations (i.e., culture talk) —in tandem with (re)formulation legal concepts doctrines situated jus gentium sovereignty, immanence, pre-emptive defense strategy)—legally adjudicating redemptive war ostensibly “moralize” profane Arabia. Proponents neo-Orientalism define philosophical theology not simply incompatible epistemology (Ar. العربية المعرفة نظرية), but Arab-Muslims are an irreconcilable threat Latin-European theology, thus, accentuating constituted ontological insecurity constituting Arab-Islamic placing secular modern logic under “siege” threatening “civil society”. This legal-historical research, therefore, argues only necessitates Islamist for security “modern” liberal-secular Being, such essentialist imaginary culturalist myth transformed into difference proceeds argue necessity sanctioning violent episode transforming supposed lawless “Middle East” receptive terror, lawful “New Middle reason. sacrilegos process reveals “inclusive exclusion” temporal ethos (a positivist) entails maintaining unbridgeable cultural gap between (universalized) sovereign subject, (particularized) object denied sovereignty coherence epistemology.