Global Matrix

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.

Preface

1. Introduction: Mapping Nationalism and Globalism

Part I. Rethinking Globalism and Globalisation

2. Global Enchantment: A Matrix of Ideologies

3. Global Trajectories: America and the Unchosen

4. Global Tensions: A Clash of Social Formations

Part II. Debating Civic and Post-Nationalism

5. Fetishised Nationalism? (Joan Cocks)

6. Ambiguous Nationalism: A Reply to Joan Cocks

7. Dark Nationalism or Transparent Postnationalism?

Part III. Reflecting on Old and New Nations

8. Ukania: The Rise of the 'Annual Report' Society

9. Australia: Anti-Politics for a Passive Federation

10. Late Britain: Disorientations from Down Under

11. North America: The Misfortunes and 'Death' of Ethnicity

12. Central Asia: Continuities and Discontinuities

Part IV. Confronting Terror and Violence

13. Democracy and the Shadow of Genocide

14. Nationalism and the Crucible of Modern Totalitarianism

15. Control and the Projection of a Totalising War-Machine

16. Terrorism and the Opening of Black Pluto's Door

17. Meta-War and the Insecurity of the United States

18. Post-2001 and the Third Coming of Nationalism

References

Index