Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New NationalismUntil the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening of the Cold War's clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties--in places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, Northern Ireland, Quebec, Germany, and the former Soviet republics--may be the definitive factor in international relation today. He asks how ethnic pride turned into ethnic cleansing, whether modern citizens can lay the ghosts of a warring past, why--and whether--a people need a state of their own, and why armed struggle might be justified. Blood and Belonging is a profound and searching look at one of the most complex issues of our time. |
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... imperial age , the last time when the nation - states of the world were clearly allocated to two opposing spheres of influence , the last time when terror produced peace . Now terror seems only to produce more terror . If the twenty ...
... imperial subjection— the Poles and Baltic peoples under the Russian yoke , the Serbs under Turkish rule , the Croats under the Habsburgs - looked to the Ger- man ideal of ethnic nationalism when articulating their right to self ...
... imperial cities for centuries . Two features , however , distinguish the big - city cosmopolitanism of our era from what has gone before . First of all is its social and racial diffusion . Twentieth - century democracy and unprecedented ...
... imperial system . For two hundred years , the global expansion of capitalism was shaped by the terri- torial ambitions and policing authority of a succession of imperial powers , the British , French , German , Austro - Hungarian , and ...
... imperial arbiter to appeal to . Small wonder , then , that , unrestrained by stronger hands , they have set upon each other for that final settling of scores so long deferred by the presence of empire . Globalism in a post - imperial ...