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Abstract
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.
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Preface: In Search of a Name | vii | ||
| Introduction:Mapping Nationalism and Globalism | 1 | ||
| Part I: Rethinking Globalism and Globalization | 17 | ||
| 2Global Enchantment:A Matrix of Ideologies | 19 | ||
| 3Global Trajectories:America and the Unchosen | 30 | ||
| 4Global Tensions:A Clash of Social Formations | 57 | ||
| Part II: Debating Civic and Post-nationalism | 71 | ||
| 5Fetishized Nationalism? | 73 | ||
| 6Ambiguous Nationalism:A Reply to Joan Cocks | 89 | ||
| 7Dark Nationalism orTransparent Postnationalism? | 104 | ||
| Part III: Reflecting on Old and New Nations | 123 | ||
| Ukania:The Rise of the ‘Annual Report’ Society | 125 | ||
| Australia:Anti-Politics for a Passive Federation | 143 | ||
| Late Britain:Disorientations from Down Under | 159 | ||
| 11North America:The Misfortunes and ‘Death’ of Ethnicity | 175 | ||
| 12Central Asia:Continuities and Discontinuities | 190 | ||
| Part IV: Confronting Terror and Violence | 203 | ||
| 13Democracy and the Shadow of Genocide | 205 | ||
| 14Nationalism and the Crucibleof Modern Totalitarianism | 213 | ||
| 15Control and the Projectionof a Totalizing War-Machine | 221 | ||
| 16Terrorism and the Openingof Black Pluto’s Door | 229 | ||
| 17Meta-War and the Insecurityof the United States | 236 | ||
| 18Post-2001 and theThird Coming of Nationalism | 248 | ||
| Notes | 262 | ||
| Index | 287 |