Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress

by Ernst B. Haas

Has 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801431085
• ISBN13: 9780801431081
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher