Nationalism Themes, Theories, and Controversies
‘This is an excellent critical introduction to nationalism studies. Lloyd Cox has written a wide ranging and insightful, yet highly accessible and concise, book that will appeal to students and scholars interested in the classical and contemporary theorie
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Themes, Theories, and Controversies Lloyd Cox
Nationalism
Lloyd Cox
Nationalism Themes, Theories, and Controversies
Lloyd Cox Department of Politics and International Relations Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Preface
While writing this book, the world was plunged into a global pandemic. This has torn at the national seams of global economic and cultural life. It has again highlighted the contradictions between global economic integration and environmental interdependence on the one hand, and the political fragmentation of the planet into national states and identities, on the other. The pandemic has made manifest the continuing relevance of nationalism for understanding the world in the Twenty-First Century, about which this book makes a modest contribution. Like many, I became vaguely aware of coronavirus sometime in January 2020. It was not like 9/11 or a presidential assassination, where one can vividly recall the exact place and time when one heard the shattering news. It was more like an imperceptible increase in the volume of what had been background noise, which would soon grow into a media cacophony. After China, serious outbreaks engulfed South Korea, Iran, and Italy, and quickly moved into Spain, France, Germany, and Great Britain. Around the same time, the United States and Australia recorded their first cases of coro
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