Author: Haas, Ernst B.
Title: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress. Volume 2: The Dismal Fate of New Nations
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 2000. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, ix,466 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Far from being inevitably aggressive and destructive, nationalism is, for the author, the primary means of bringing coherence to modernizing societies. In this volume he emphasizes the benefits of liberal nationalism which he deems as more progressive than other nation-building formulas because it relies on reason to improve citizens' lives. The author considers several societies that modernized relatively recently, many of them aroused to nationalism by the imperialism of the "old" nation-states. The book probes the different patterns of development in emerging countries - Iran, Egypt, India, Brazil, Mexico, China, Russia and Ukraine -for insights into the possibilities and limitations of all nationalisms, especially liberal nationalism. Employing a systematic comparative perspective, Haas organizes the book around the notion of change and its management by political elites in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Russia. Haas particularly wants to understand how nationalism plays out in the politics of modernization within non-Western cultures, especially those where religions other than Christianity predominate. Where the hold of religion remains formidable, he argues, the mixture of traditional and secular-modernist institutions and beliefs will challenge the victory of liberal nationalism and the very success of nation-state formation" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Political History, Nationalism, Nationalist, Comparative, Politics, Liberal, Liberalism, ,