Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism

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:
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

About the Author :
Tom Nairn has lectured in Social Philosophy at Birmingham University and in General Studies at Hornsey College of Art, London. In the 1970s he was Senior Research Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. In the 1980s, he worked for Scottish Television in Glasgow and as writer-producer with Agenda Productions of Swansea, before returning to academic life, working with Ernest Gellner at the Prague College of the Central European University. During the late 1990s he set up a new 'Nationalism Studies' MSc degree for the Graduate School of the University of Edinburgh, although that time also included a visiting professorship at the University of Northumbria (1997). He was appointed as a Fellow of the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen in 2000, Professorial Fellow in Politics at Monash University in 2001. In 2002 he was appointed as Innovation Professor at RMIT.