Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress – The Rise and Decline of Nationalism Haas

Nationalism, Liberalism, and ProgressThe Rise and Decline of Nationalism\nAuthor(s): Ernst B. Haas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801431081, 978-0801431081\nSynopsis\nHas global liberalism made the nation-state obsolete? Or, on the contrary, are primordial nationalist hatreds overwhelming cosmopolitanism? To assert either theme without serious qualification, according to Ernst B. Haas, is historically simplistic and morally misleading. Haas describes nationalism as a key component of modernity and a crucial instrument for making sense of impersonal, rapidly changing, and heterogeneous societies. He characterizes nationalism as a feeling of collective identity, a mutual understanding experienced among people who may never meet but who are persuaded that they belong to a community of kindred spirits. Without nationalism, there could be no large integrated [url] comes in many varieties, some revoluti.