This book attempts to address the recent development of ethno nationalism in Western Europe and North America. It engages with Kleinian psychoanalytical concepts, balancing these with a broader socio-economic emphasis, to argue that a certain type of nationalism is becoming more prevalent. The book seeks to suggest, through an interpretation of political culture, that contemporary ethno nationalism is linked to the decline of a sense of the self. Contemporary service based economies tend to favour a lack of personal reality or connectedness to social traditions. Individuals gain emotional...