Deterioration of Nationalism under Globalization in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish

Virtuality, Nationalism, and Globalization in Zhang's Hero

In her article "Virtuality, Nationalism, and Globalization in Zhang's Hero" Ping Zhu examines how Yimou Zhang's martial arts film dislodges the historical tale from its spatiotemporal context by creating virtual images, characters, narratives, and ideologies, and presents the virtual idea of tianxia (天下) (all under heaven) as an active mode of participation in the virtual global. Amidst the sur...

Economic Globalization and Expressions of Nationalism:

Economic globalization and growing interdependence have greatly facilitated the flows of trade, investment, and ideas among formerly hostile countries. However, political antagonism driven by nationalistic sentiments continues to break out in countries with increased inflows of foreign investments, such as China. The media identifies that a majority of participants in China's recent anti-foreig...

Varieties of American Popular Nationalism

Despite the relevance of nationalism for politics and intergroup relations, sociologists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the phenomenon in the United States, and historians and political psychologists who do study the United States have limited their focus to specific forms of nationalist sentiment: ethnocultural or civic nationalism, patriotism, or national pride. This article in...

Globalization under Financial Imperfection

The paper investigates the effects of international trade in goods and capital movement on the productivity distribution and industry-wide productivity when countries are heterogeneous in the quality of their financial institutions. In autarky, firm heterogeneity in their productivities arises in countries with poor financial institutions, while all firms adopt a high-productivity technology in...

Meeting Summary - Anglo-Japanese Cooperation in an Era of Growing Nationalism and Weakening Globalization - Final