Identity (Ebook)
Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
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The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of History
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.
Identity (Paperback)
Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
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The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of History
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.
Reviews for Identity
Daniel Finkelstein Times
Andrew Marr Sunday Times
Nesrine Malik Prospect
David Goodhart Literary Review
Praise for Origins of Political Order:
'Fukuyama remains as prominent as ever'
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Financial Times
Praise for The Origins of Political Order:
It should be read by every democrat - and every dictator.
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Dominic Lawson
The Times
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