IDENTITY

Author: Fukuyama, Francis

Brand: Profile Books

Color: White

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 05-09-2019

model number: 35403757

Part Number: 35403757

Details: Currently in Bill Gates;s bookbag and FT Books of 2018
Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world;s politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics.
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to ;the people;, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.

EAN: 9781781259818

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English