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IDENTITY - FRANCIS FUKUYAMA KARTONIERT (TB)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative
examination of modern identity politics: its origins  its effects  and what it means for
domestic and international affairs of state   In 2014  Francis Fukuyama wrote that American
institutions were in decay  as the state was progressively 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 threatened to
destabilize 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.   Demand
for recognition of one's identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in
world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been
increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation  religion  sect  race
ethnicity  or gender  which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism  the upsurge of
politicized Islam  the fractious "identity liberalism" of college campuses  and the emergence
of white nationalism. Populist nationalism  said to be rooted in economic motivation  actually
springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic
means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended  we must begin to shape identity in a way
that supports rather than undermines democracy.   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 continuing conflict.

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