Globalisation of Nationalism: The Motive-Force Behind Twenty-First Century Politics [Paperback]

Organised as an experiment testing the hypothesis that behind the hottest political issues of the quarter-century after the Cold War lies globalisation of national consciousness, this collection of essays unites authors from the four corners of the world.Organised as an experiment testing the hypothesis that behind the hottest political issues of the quarter-century after the Cold War lies globalisation of national consciousness, this collection of essays unites authors from the four corners of the world. They focus on democratisation and its failure in Russia, transformations of identity in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, North and South America, and South-East Asia, the rise of militant and political Islam, and the eruption of China onto the world stage. The volume makes the argument that globalisation we are witnessing is, for the most part, the globalisation of competitive and antagonistic nationalism, which spreads to areas where it was not known earlier and into the sphere of religion, ostensibly indifferent to it. Collectively, these essays prove that nationalism remains the organising principle of politics inside nations as well as at transnational and international levels.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiContributors ixIntroduction  Collected Volume as an Experiment xiiiChapter One  Russias Identity of Perpetual Crisis 1Nina KruschevaChapter Two  The Russian Idea: A Fragment 17Dmitry BykovChapter Three  The Construction, Deconstruction and Conflict ofNational Identities in Moldova 21Lee CojocaruChapter Four  A Partnership of Equals or Equal Membership?Equality and Difference in Multinational States 43Emmanuel Dalle MulleChapter Five  Political Union Without Territory? Space Representationand Identity Deficit in the EU 69Axel MarionChapter Six  Identity Technologies and the Nationalism Lite of theEuropean Union 81Ireneusz Pawel KarolewskiChapter Seven  Dignity for All: Nationalism in Tanzania 99Katrina DemullingChapter Eight  ls4