Weekend Reading 02/24/2017

Justin Collier Discussion

 

H-Nationalism’s Weekend Reading series highlights recent and thought-provoking reviews, blog posts, brief articles, and op-eds.  Have something to say about something you read?  Feel free to respond here or contact David Prior (prior@mail.h-net.msu.edu) and Justin Collier (collierjustin@gmail.com) about writing a blogpost. Follow us on Twitter @HNationalism.

 

Dear All,

A piece by Sebastian Faaber in The Nation analyzes the success of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. Bloomberg News instead has a piece on how the Dutch elections are about more than nationalism.

From The Atlantic, Anna Momigliano writes about the intellectual links between the alt-right movement and the philosophy of Julius Evola. Quartz has an article on white nationalism in the American Midwest. News 24 has an op-ed on nationalism, populism and the rise of Trump. The New York Times has a piece on how nationalism impacted a multi-billion-dollar multinational business deal. Haaretz has an op-ed that attempts to locate Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon on the fascism/nationalism scale. Japan Times has a piece on how conservatives are uniting behind Trump’s economic nationalism. CNN has a story on a conservative who derides Trumpian economic nationalism.

The Southern Times has an op-ed on nationalism and decolonization.

ABC News has an article on Ukrainian nationalists clash with police in Kiev.

Africa News has a story on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s support for Trumpian nationalism. International Business Times has a similar story.

The Statesman has an op-ed discussing cultural diplomacy and nationalism in India and Pakistan.

Christian Science Monitor has a piece on Turkish President Erdoğan’s attempt to rebuild an Ottoman style Islamic nationalism.

“If a nationalist party in Canada does come about, there’s a significant chance that it will emerge from the left, not the right” - Stephen Gordon's opinion in National Post.

Huffington Post has a blog post discussing European nationalism. The Telegraph has a story on the Bank of England’s warning to the EU about the impact of economic nationalism.

Taiwan News has an op-ed on Taiwanese nationalism.

National Review continues a discussion on the difference between nationalism and patriotism.

Vox published an article on globalization and economic nationalism.

A blog post by Jörn Rusen on Public History Weekly about racism as a “killing argument in cultural studies.”

On Psychology Today, Timothy Pytell comments on the life and work of Viktor Frankl and asks whether there is a Fascist impulse in all of us.

TED has a talk featuring historian Yuval Harari who discusses current political divisions around the world in terms of a struggle between globalism and nationalism.

 

Reviews

For H-Nationalism, Magdalena Waligorska reviews Theodore R. Weeks’s book Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 (2015, Northern Illinois University Press), which reconstructs the past of Lithuania's present-day capital as a multi-ethnic metropolis in Eastern Europe. For the same network, Gaëlle Fisher writes about Deutschland und die Verfolgung der Juden im rumänischen Machtbereich 1940-1944 (2014, De Gruyter Oldenbourg) about German influence and the Holocaust in Romania. Richard Ned Lebow reviews Nationalist Passions (2015, Cornell University Press) by Stuart J. Kaufman.

 

Regards,

Cristian Cercel, Shota Kincha, Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Kit Man, and Justin Collier