A thought-provoking examination of nationalism's spread around the world as the promise of
globalism wanesRevolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about
the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice Nadav Eyal illustrates
how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world
order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress
or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power
structures that have become hollow corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal
illuminates the benign and malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic
political and cultural realities shedding light not only on the economic and cultural
revolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolution waged by those it
has marginalized and exploited.With a mixture of journalisticnarrative penetrating vignettes
and original analysis Revolt shows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells
stories of distressed Pennsylvania coal miners anarchist communes on the outskirts of Athens
a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates neo-Nazis in Germany and Syrian refugee
families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece to their destination in Germany. Into
these reports from the present Eyal weaves lessons from the past from the opium wars in China
to colonialist Haiti to the Marshall Plan. With these historical ties he shows that the
revolts' roots have always been deep and strong and that rather than seeing current uprisings
as part of a passing phenomenon we should recognize that revolt is the new status quo.
