The Virtue of Nationalism

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A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial debate: Should we fight for international government? Or should the world's nations keep their independence and self-determination? In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony contends that a world of sovereign nations is the only option for those who care about personal and collective freedom. He recounts how, beginning in the sixteenth century, English, Dutch, and American Protestants revived the Old Testament's love of national independence, and shows how their vision eventually brought freedom to peoples from Poland to India, Israel to Ethiopia. It is this tradition we must restore, he argues, if we want to limit conflict and hate--and allow human difference and innovation to flourish. Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Table of Contents......Page 5 Dedication......Page 7 Introduction: A Return to Nationalism......Page 8 PART ONENationalism and Western Freedom......Page 17 I Two Visions of World Order......Page 18 II The Roman Church and Its Vision of Empire......Page 22 III The Protestant Construction of the West......Page 24 IV John Locke and the Liberal Construction......Page 28 V Nationalism Discredited......Page 34 VI Liberalism as Imperialism......Page 38 VII Nationalist Alternatives to Liberalism......Page 43 PART TWOThe Case for the National State......Page 47 VIII Two Types of Political Philosophy......Page 48 IX The Foundations of Political Order......Page 51 X How Are States Really Born?......Page 62 XI Business and Family......Page 67 XII Empire and Anarchy......Page 73 XIII National Freedom as an Ordering Principle......Page 80 XIV The Virtues of the National State......Page 87 XV The Myth of the Federal Solution......Page 109 XVI The Myth of the Neutral State......Page 119 XVII A Right to National Independence?......Page 127 XVIII Some Principles of the Order of National States......Page 134 PART THREEAnti-Nationalism and Hate......Page 142 XIX Is Hatred an Argument Against Nationalism?......Page 143 XX The Shaming Campaigns Against Israel......Page 145 XXI Immanuel Kant and the Anti-Nationalist Paradigm......Page 148 XXII Two Lessons of Auschwitz......Page 152 XXIII Why the Enormities of the Third World and Islam Go Unprotested......Page 157 XXIV Britain, America, and Other Deplorable Nations......Page 161 XXV Why Imperialists Hate......Page 164 Conclusion: The Virtue of Nationalism......Page 168 Acknowledgments......Page 175 About the Author......Page 177 Also by Yoram Hazony......Page 178 Praise for The Virtue of Nationalism......Page 179 Notes......Page 180 Index......Page 219