Global Matrix

Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Tom Nairn, Paul James ISBN: 9781783719099
Publisher: Pluto Press Publication: March 20, 2005
Imprint: Pluto Press Language: English
Author: Tom Nairn, Paul James
ISBN: 9781783719099
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication: March 20, 2005
Imprint: Pluto Press
Language: English
Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas globalism, nationalism, and state-terror to confront common mythologies and identify the root causes of the problems we face.

Too many commentators still argue that globalization is predominantly a neo-liberal economic phenomenon; that nation-states are on the way out, and that terror is something that primarily comes from below. Global Matrix exposes the limitations of this argument. The authors explore four main questions:

-- What is the cultural-political nature of contemporary globalization?
-- How adequate, particularly in the context of nation-states, is a politics of democratic nationalism?
-- How are we to understand new and old nations in the context of changes across the late twentieth century and into the present?
-- Where does national violence come from and what does it mean for a 'war on terror'?

Written by two leading scholars, this is a lucid study of what place the nation-state has in a globalizing world that will appeal to students across the political and social sciences.
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Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas globalism, nationalism, and state-terror to confront common mythologies and identify the root causes of the problems we face.

Too many commentators still argue that globalization is predominantly a neo-liberal economic phenomenon; that nation-states are on the way out, and that terror is something that primarily comes from below. Global Matrix exposes the limitations of this argument. The authors explore four main questions:

-- What is the cultural-political nature of contemporary globalization?
-- How adequate, particularly in the context of nation-states, is a politics of democratic nationalism?
-- How are we to understand new and old nations in the context of changes across the late twentieth century and into the present?
-- Where does national violence come from and what does it mean for a 'war on terror'?

Written by two leading scholars, this is a lucid study of what place the nation-state has in a globalizing world that will appeal to students across the political and social sciences.

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