Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communities. This book discusses the concept of nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, geological, theological, and anthropological perspectives. It examines nationalist conflicts past and prese…
The aims of this chapter revolve around three arguments. First, in agreement with the contributions this volume consists of, it demonstrates the continu-ing force and reality of the nation form as the only mode of politics world-wide currently. Against arguments seeing the demise of nationalism as integral to the march to globalization, globalism or a cosmopolitan future on the one ha…
Ever since its emergence as a phenomenon, nationalism has been the political process that creates the context for the production of nations. These nations and nationalism then become the backdrop for new elites-desired salient identities galvanized by nationalism.1 This structuring is done either by significantly altering or upgrading the previous identit…