Daedalus articles from June 1993

Daedalus archives from June 1993

Nationalisms: classified and explained. (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... UNDERSTANDING NATIONALISM IS SO OBVIOUSLY an urgent necessity that there is much to be said for the provision of a clearly delineated overview of the state of play among theorists of the subject. What exactly do we know about a force whose...

National self-determination as a problem for all of us. (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... LET ME MAKE THE CASE FOR FLEEING from conventional discussions of nationalism to an analysis of national self-determination as a justification for political action. Every place we turn these days someone is discussing nationalism: its origins,...

Whither "nation" and "nationalism"? (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... DURING THE 1980s AND 1990s, THE SCHOLARLY industry, built up around the concepts of nation and nationalism, became so vast and so interdisciplinary as to rival all other contemporary foci of intellectual production. I take "nation,"...

Transcending the nation's worth. (the economics of nationalism) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... ABOUT A CENTURY AND A HALF Ago, during the time which was called "the spring of the nations," when nationalism seemed to be the ruling passion on the continent of Europe, daily strengthening its grip on the hearts and minds of people, young...

Thoughts on the French nation today. (evolution of France as a nation state over the past 200 years) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... I WHAT IS THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE modern French nation which two centuries of conscious and conscientious efforts, from the Revolution to the present, have built around the idea of the nation? In the self-image of the French, as in...

Aliens, immigrants, and citizens: the politics of inclusion in the Federal Republic of Germany. (extremism as a result of conflicting efforts to create a national identity) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS of November 23, 1992, in Molln, a town near Hamburg, two right-wing arsonists firebombed a house in which a ten-year-old Turkish girl, her fifty-one-year-old grandmother, and the grandmother's fourteen-year-old niece...

Nation-states in Europe and other continents: diversifying, developing, not dying. (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... MANY BELIEVE WE HAVE Now REACHED the old age of the nation-state. Since 1945, they say, its sovereignty has been outreached by transnational power networks, especially those of global capitalism and postmodern culture.(1) Some postmodernists...

Homeland of the unrevolution. (collapse of the Soviet Union) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... THE TOTAL, ASTONISHING, AND ALMOST completely unforeseen collapse of the Soviet Union leaves us all with a practical as well as a theoretical problem. It is both difficult and dangerous, and we would much rather be without it. It is a kind of...

Internationalism and the second coming. (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... NAVIGATION OF THE SEAS BEYOND THE END of history requires new bearings. "Internationalism" is one of the most important of these. It is important that it not be taken for granted, yet it often is. The concept we have inherited was the reverse...

Arab nationalism: mistaken identity. (past and current geo-political, social and economic influences that refute the notion of Arab national unity) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... THREE LINES OF POETRY PLOT THE TRAJECTORY of Arab national consciousness. "Awake, O Arabs, and arise!" begins the famous ode of Ibrahim al-Yaziji, penned in 1868 in Lebanon.(1) George Antonius deployed the line as the epigraph of his...

Culture, modernity, and nationalism - further reflections. (concepts of political and social unity in Eastern Asia) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... IN ALMOST ALL CURRENT DISCUSSIONS OF THE present situation in the East Asian cultural sphere, and of the "non-Western" world in general, there are two terms which seem to be unavoidable: "culture" and "modernity." Both categories are, of...

Contested meanings: India's national identity, Hindu nationalism, and the politics of anxiety. (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography)
June 22, 1993... THE PRIMARY IMPULSE OF THIS ESSAY is explanatory, not normative. It is important to keep this distinction in mind because the subject--the rise of Hindu nationalism--generates strong emotions. While dealing with Hindu nationalism, the customary...

Churchill, the End of Glory: A Political Biography.
June 22, 1993... JOHN CHARMELY HAD A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE. He handed his publishers a book, seven hundred pages long, about a man of whom millions of words had been written. Although they trumpeted that it was a notable piece of revisionist history cutting...

A review of John Charmley, Churchill, The End of Glory: A political Biography. (critical examination of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's foreign and domestic policy mistakes)
June 22, 1993... JOHN CHARMELY HAD A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE. He handed his publishers a book, seven hundred pages long, about a man of whom millions of words had been written. Although they trumpeted that it was a notable piece of revisionist history cutting...