ABSTRACT
This chapter explores alleged centrality of the West and the corollary casting away of the non-West that occurs as the United States continues to seek ways to re-center itself in international relations and inside its own public culture in the long afterglow of 9/11 and the War on Terror. It summarizes how the production and continuation of the so-called central or leading presence of the US and the West in international relations is implemented through tabloid and hyped up discursive/representational operations of national and international recentering/reaffirming of the United States. The chapter facilitates a critical reflection on how this re-imagined recentering, reaffirming, and resecuring of the United States and the West can be made far more uncertain than what some intellectuals of statecraft think it is or, rather, it should be. It encourages the propagation of an alternate discourse that could champion the condition of being vulnerable to the possibility of being otherwise than one has already become.
