Nationalism and society. Modernity and the recalcitrance of the n

Nationalism reflexcts and reinforces four key trends in Western social development: State formation, democratization, capitalism and the rationalization of culture; Nationalism in persistent, not merely because of its specific ideologiacal appeal, but beacuse it expresses some of the major conflicts in modernity; Postnationalism and cospopolitanism are significant innovations in the debate about nation-states and nationalism; The new radical nationalisms have become powerful movements in the global age.