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...
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...
"For years," William Pfaff writes, "there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the successful postwar American policy of 'patient but firm containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies...has over decades turned into a vast project for ending tyranny in the world. We defend this position by making the claim that the United States possesses an exceptional status among nations that confers upon it special international responsibilities, and exceptional privileges in meeting those responsibilities. This is where the problem lies. It has become somewhat of a national...
"For years," William Pfaff writes, "there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the successful postwar American policy of 'pa...
