The Western Nation-State, Cultural Pluralism and the Transnational Circulation of Political Emotions in the Shi'a Lebanese Diaspora

在最一般的层面上，这项研究旨在揭示和解释情感在所有文化形成中的重要性。通过这样做，它为更复杂地理解一些无形但重要的力量开辟了道路，这些力量塑造了文化多元国家内的文化间关系。因此，它将为改进和完善与多元化管理有关的政府政策提供可能性。在更具体的层面上，这项研究希望产生关于散居海外的阿拉伯穆斯林文化的批判性知识，以改善这些文化如今与西方政府之间的棘手关系。

At its most general level, this research aims to expose and explain the importance of emotions in the formation of all cultures. In so doing it opens the way for a more complex understanding of some of the invisible but important forces that shape intercultural relations within culturally plural nations. It will thus open the possibilities for ameliorating and refining government policies concerned with the management of pluralism. At a more particular level, the research hopes to produce critical knowledge about diasporic Arab Muslim cultures that will ameliorate the thorny relations these cultures have today with western governments.