Cameron and Counter-terrorism: Creating a Shared Sense of Identity?
David Cameron’s speech on radicalisation and Islamic terror delivered at the Munich Security Conference outlined the Coalition Government’s standpoint regarding multiculturalism and counter-terrorism strategy. Significantly, only weeks after the Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi announced that Islamophobia had become socially acceptable in Britain, Cameron’s attack on multiculturalism appeared to align the Government with the ideology of [...]
Shifting the multiculturalism debate
Shifting Dialogues: Towards a Rights-Based, Free and Fair Civic Integration Policy Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany’s assertion that multiculturalism has “utterly failed” has elicited an array of responses including conservatives calling on a return to assimilation. But what does multiculturalism and assimilation mean? And what role do they play in policy? I argue that, [...]
