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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Global Matrix
• Subtitle: Nationalism, Globalism and State-terrorism
• Author: Tom Nairn, Paul James
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780745322919
• ISBN: 0745322913
• ID: 04671404
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Weight: 549 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 150 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. April 2005

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