2019
DOI: 10.1177/0047117819842306
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Nationalism, nations and the crisis of world order

Abstract: One hundred years ago, the first Department of International Politics was established at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, with the express purpose of seeking in Arnold Toynbee’s prophetic words (uttered many years later) – of breaking decisively with the ‘habit of nationalism’. As David Davies in the founding statement put it, by moving beyond ‘insular and vested prejudices … the shattered family of nations’ could be brought back together again and a new world order established. Yet as the history… Show more

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“…For some, this was a battle cry, for others a disaster. Michael Cox's article 88 identifies Arnold Toynbee, a noted philosopher of history and (Chatham House-style) polymath as one of the latter. Toynbee expressed the hope that the 'habit of nationalism' could be broken.…”
Section: Theory and Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For some, this was a battle cry, for others a disaster. Michael Cox's article 88 identifies Arnold Toynbee, a noted philosopher of history and (Chatham House-style) polymath as one of the latter. Toynbee expressed the hope that the 'habit of nationalism' could be broken.…”
Section: Theory and Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Just as Michael Cox wrote, "nationalism has throughout continued to retain its power of mobilizing peoples and setting nation against nation". [16] To establish independent modern nation-state is an inevitable process of modern society, we have to understand, process and use of national identity and nationalism properly.…”
Section: Nationalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These range from concerns with cyclical breakdowns of global financial markets and their aftermaths, 6 to recurrence and resurgence of nationalism as a 'crisis of world order', to global pandemics and risks of climatic and ecological catastrophe. 7 Yet, while familiar, the concept of crisis itself deserves further consideration, not least owing to its occurrence and recurrence within such literatures. Several major contributions have previously moved in this general direction, with some seeking to reflect on how concepts of crisis frame, bound, and thus specify and delimit international policy problems.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%