From the Book - First edition.
Introduction : a return to nationalism
Two visions of world order
The roman church and its vision of empire
The protestant construction of the west
John Locke and the liberal construction
Liberalism as imperialism
Nationalist alternatives to liberalism
Two types of political philosophy
The foundations of political order
How are states really born?
National freedom as an ordering principle
The virtues of the national state
The myth of the federal solution
The myth of the neutral state
A right to national independence?
Some principles of the order of national states
Is hatred an argument against nationalism?
The shaming campaigns against Israel
Immanuel Kant and the anti-nationalist paradigm
Why the enormities of the Third World and Islam go unprotested
Britain, America and other deplorable nations
The hatred of emperors and imperialists
Conclusion : the virtue of nationalism.
