After nations : the making and unmaking of a world order

Dasgupta, Rana, 1971-2026

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The system of our nations is in convulsion. As American hegemony unwinds, anxious Western countries slide into xenophobia and debt. The liberal ideas and institutions which once made them great are losing their prestige; autocracies like China, Russia and the UAE, by contrast, are rising. Wars and imperial ventures re-emerge as viable solutions for national failures, and - so degraded has it become - few even bother to invoke 'international law'. For those most completely abandoned by nation-states, meanwhile, there is no future except through life-threatening migration. All in all, the global political order offers human beings ever fewer securities - and ever more threats. Rana Dasgupta traces the nation-state's early formation, and its rise to world domination, to find out why things have turned out like this.