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I found that Voltaire's Bastards had some gems in it, but tended to drift into incoherency quite a bit too.

He has a newer book out, which I want to read but I haven't got around to as yet:

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

I guess it runs along the themes in this article and other recent ones he has published.

I'm uneasy with the conflation of different types of nationalism. Economic nationalism in the "First World" can maybe said to be "resurgent" but I strongly feel that all those things like resource wars, ethnic tension, etc. never ebbed in the first place, so to class them as resurgent leads to faulty analysis. This is a big topic though, so I'll stop here for now.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 05:49:19 AM EST
Economic nationalism in the "First World" can maybe said to be "resurgent" but I strongly feel that all those things like resource wars, ethnic tension, etc. never ebbed in the first place, so to class them as resurgent leads to faulty analysis.

Agreed - it can only be said to be resurgent regionally.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 06:04:52 AM EST
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