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This chapter sets the scene for this book’s argument that despite globalization being a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society to function together, and the advantages thereof, the contours and the distribution of nationalism across the globe, and the identity interests associated with these contours, do undermine or operate against the aims of global governance, globalization, and the potential coherence of the global political and economic landscape. Globalization is defined as “a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.”1 Against this context, the identities from nationalism ensure that identity-related interests frustrate rather than promote globalization. In other words, nationalism competes against globalization.
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Anthony Smith, Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995), 31–32.
Michael Amoah, Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007), 10–17.
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Amoah, M. (2011). Theorizing on Nationalism. In: Nationalism, Globalization, and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002167_1
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