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Nationalism has become the most destructive and widely felt ideology of our time, replacing the Cold War as the focal point of world politics. In this book, William Pfaff explores where nationalism comes from and where it is taking us. Pfaff explains how nationalism was distorted into Nazism and Communism - and how a resurgence of nationalism defeated both. He details how it undermined colonialism, only to leave much of Africa, Asia and the Middle East beset with unstable or authoritarian governments, and examines how ethnic nationalism, having laid waste to Yugoslavia, now threatens the...

A hidden moral history of the twentieth century unfolds in William Pfaff's fascinating story of writers, artists, intellectual soldiers, and religious revolutionaries implicated in the century's physical and moral violence. They were motivated by romanticism, nationalism, utopianism -- and the search for transcendence. To our twenty-first century, already plunged -- once again -- into visionary terrorism and utopian quests, they leave a warning....
The account begins with Italy's Futurists, who glorified war as "the world's only hygiene"; painted speed, action, and noise; invented...