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Book SynopsisFar from being an inevitably aggressive and destructive force, nationalism is, for Ernst B. Haas, the primary means of bringing coherence to modernizing societies. In the second volume of his magisterial exploration of this topic, Haas emphasizes the...
Trade ReviewErnst Haas has made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the complex relationships between modernity and nationalism.
-- John A. Armstrong * American Journal of Sociology *
Haas's central argument is that liberal nationalism is more likely than the other variants 'to bring about the conditions that raise their societies from the premodern to the formally rationalized.'... An ambitious and sophisticated theoretical argument.... Nationalism, Liberalism and Progress represents one of the most important and compelling books we have encountered in this decade.... Nationalism, Liberalism and Progress offers an original and sophisticated account of the emergence of different nationalist ideologies and their elective affinities with learning and progress.
-- Steven A. Cook and Rudra Sil * Millennium: Journal of International Studies *
The Dismal Fate of New Nations is an interesting addition to the literature on nations and nationalism.
-- Umut Ozkirimli * Millennium: Journal of International Studies *
Ernst Haas's book... is an erudite, complex, and ambitious analysisof 'liberal' nationalism.... This review can hardly do justice to the book, which is a tour de force, and which feeds the intellectual appetite of all who are interested in the phenomenon of nationalism. We look forward to the sequel.
-- William Safran * American Political Science Review *
This is an important book. It deals with significant questions, and the author should be praised for a careful definition of his terms, for a clear statement of his hypothesis, and for his willingness to qualify this hypothesis in his conclusion when his historical evidence so warranted. I look forward to reading the second volume when it appears.
-- Edward A. Stettner * National Security Studies Quarterly *
