Cultures, Nationalism and Populism

"This stimulating collection of essays probes the role of culture in the contests over multiple modernities and its discontents. In transcending the conventional binary of East and West, the book develops novel perspectives on some of the most salient issues in contemporary world politics." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA. "This book uses the conceptual framework of multiple modernities to probe the various contestions about global and regional orders. It engages in a dialogue among European, Latin American, and Asian scholars on some of the most pressing questions of our times." - Thomas Risse, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Thomas Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly political magazine, Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte. Jos Lus de Sales Marques is President of the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM), Macau. Mario Tel is the Jean Monnet Chair of International Relations at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles and Romes LUISS, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels.

Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Competing Modernities and Models of Modernization 1. Multiple modernities and anti-modernism today 2. Nation-building in the era of populism and the Muslim intelligentsia: The case of Indonesia 3. Can we explain multiple modernities? Suggested insights and their test in a South American context 4. Time, modernity, and the resurgence of right-wing populism Part II: The EU and China: Diverse Identities and Political Prospects 5. Modernization and modernity: Authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics 6. The Political Identity of Europeans and the challenges of the time after modernity Part III: Challenges for a Common Agenda of a New Multilateral Convergence 7. Multiple modernities in a multipolar and multiregional world: Some conditions for an interregional dialogue 8. The crisis of the Western liberal order and the rise of the new populism 9. Populism, globalization, and future world order 10. Conflicting liberties and modernities in comparative perspective. Conclusion