The concept of the national is often perceived, both in public and academic discourse as the
central obstacle for the realization of cosmopolitan orientations. Consequently, debates …

My fascination with foie gras began as a bystander. In March 2005, a front-page article
appeared in the Chicago Tribune, detailing harsh words exchanged between two of …

The Australian government's decision to lead a Pacific Islands Forum regional intervention
into Solomon Islands marked a dramatic change in Australian policy toward the Solomons in …

An important recent development in the discipline of International Relations (IR) has been
the growing interest in the national schools and “non-core” theorizing. Even though this …

In the wake of the 2006 'Cartoons Affair'which saw international protests by Muslims against
the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, it is clear that identity based …

Nations and nationalism remain relevant even in the context of increased global integration.
At the same time, as commodity chains become longer, more transnational, and increasingly …

Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a
popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the …

Gegen Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts erlebt die Idee des „Kosmopolitismus"-die Vorstellung
einer primaren individuellen Zugehorigkeit zur umfassenden Einheit der Menschheit …

This book argues that, in the years since the 9/11 attacks, socially constructed
understandings of the identity of the United States and its friends and enemies have played …

This paper presents a critical reading of the metaphor “collective memory”, coined by the
French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs in the 1920s. The main argument is that collective …