Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces. Some nations and peoples experience the fragmentation of once certain identities as threatening and likely to generate political and social breakdown. Others encounter globalization as a challenge which brings uncertainties but also opportunities for adaptation, the evolution of hybrid identities or new forms of protest.

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Preface
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Globalization and the Crisis of Identities; P.Kennedy
PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION: CRISIS AND THREAT
Russia in Search of Itself; C.J.Danks
Identity and Conflict in Globalizing Times: Experiencing the Global in Areas Raged by Conflict and the Case of the Bosnian Serbs; I.Armakolas
Identity in the Former GDR: Expressions of 'Ostalgia' and Ossi Pride' in United Germany; P.Hogwood
'You and Me Against the World:' Christian Fundamentalists and White Poverty in the USA; J.F.Scott
PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION: OPPORTUNITY AND CREATIVE ADAPTATION
Global Culture in the Thai Media: The Occidental 'Other' in TV Advertisements; A.Nedpogaeo
Globalization, Identity and 'Ireland'; G.H.Fagan
Civil-Military Relations and Professional Military Identities after the Nation-State; G.Segell
On the Construction of Political Identity: Negotiations and Strategies Beyond the Nation-State; D.J.O'Byrne
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION: THE CHALLENGE OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
The Immigration of Foreign Workers: A Mirror of Israel's Changing Identity; W.Berthoniere
Identities, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Some International Concerns; E.Stanley
Globalization and National Identity Rituals in Brazil and the USA; the Politics of Pleasure versus the Politics of Protest; L.Langman
Globalization and Alternative Approaches to the Transformation of Nation States: Scotland as a Test Case; J.W.Books
Acronyms
Bibliography
Index

PAUL KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the Research Unit for Global Studies. He has taught sociology, with a special interest in Africa, North-South relations and global affairs, for over thirty years in different countries. His research interests and publications include work on African capitalism and development, green businesses and consumerism and transnational professional communities.

CATHERINE DANKS is Senior Lecturer in History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Research Unit for Global Studies. She is the author of Russian Politics and Society.