Sail On, O Ship Of State
Sail On, O Ship Of State
Sail On, O Ship Of State
Sail On, O Ship Of State
Sail On, O Ship Of State
Sail On, O Ship Of State
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Published: 01/05/2013
ISBN: 9781907903595
Extent: 277 pages

Sail On, O Ship Of State

Author: Johanna Möhring

Editor: Johanna MöhringGwythian Prins

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‘We need to reclaim the nation state as a public good.’ Michael Gove

The nation-state has refused to shuffle off the stage of history. Why? With what implications? This collection of essays is a first attempt to restore it to its rightful place: at the heart of the people, centre-stage in politics.

Contributors: Michael Gove, Roger Scruton, Michael Ignatieff, Tom Kremer, Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Daniel Hannan, Chris Husbands, Frank Field, Michael Lind, Garrett Wallace-Brown, Julian Lindley-French.

Since 1945, there has been an ascendant narrative in international affairs, which blamed the nation-states of Europe for the double catastrophes of the First and Second World Wars and has invested hope in a new post-nation-state world order which arose from those ashes. But we are plainly in the midst of a crisis for that narrative. For a decade at least, all the main multilateral institutions have been waning.

The UN has faded steadily as it proved incapable in crisis after crisis. NATO’s irrelevance has been cruelly brought to light in the wars in Afghanistan. The EU project of ever-closer union is fracturing under the strains of a systemic economic and financial crisis. Economic globalisation, with all its benefits, stands revealed as less of a panacea than the cosmopolitan globalisation narrative credited.

Furthermore, the affection and loyalty that citizens feel for their national identities has not waned. Rather, it has waxed as global troubles have loomed.

 

Published: 01/05/2013
ISBN: 9781907903595
Extent: 277 pages

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‘We need to reclaim the nation state as a public good.’ Michael Gove

The nation-state has refused to shuffle off the stage of history. Why? With what implications? This collection of essays is a first attempt to restore it to its rightful place: at the heart of the people, centre-stage in politics.

Contributors: Michael Gove, Roger Scruton, Michael Ignatieff, Tom Kremer, Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Daniel Hannan, Chris Husbands, Frank Field, Michael Lind, Garrett Wallace-Brown, Julian Lindley-French.

Since 1945, there has been an ascendant narrative in international affairs, which blamed the nation-states of Europe for the double catastrophes of the First and Second World Wars and has invested hope in a new post-nation-state world order which arose from those ashes. But we are plainly in the midst of a crisis for that narrative. For a decade at least, all the main multilateral institutions have been waning.

The UN has faded steadily as it proved incapable in crisis after crisis. NATO’s irrelevance has been cruelly brought to light in the wars in Afghanistan. The EU project of ever-closer union is fracturing under the strains of a systemic economic and financial crisis. Economic globalisation, with all its benefits, stands revealed as less of a panacea than the cosmopolitan globalisation narrative credited.

Furthermore, the affection and loyalty that citizens feel for their national identities has not waned. Rather, it has waxed as global troubles have loomed.

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Weight 0.25 kg
Dimensions 19 × 12 × 1 cm
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