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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 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 threatened to destabilise the entire international order. 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."He faults the left for failing to build solidarity around large collectivities (the working class, for example), instead focusing on 'every smaller' marginalized group. To counter this fragmentation, Fukuyama advises that 'successful assimilation of foreigners' might curb vociferous populism, requi

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Author

Fukuyama, Francis

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782834137

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Social_sciences