Hazony, Yoram. 2018. The Virtue of Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 285 pp. $ 19.50 (Hardcover).
Hazony, Yoram. 2018. The Virtue of Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 285 pp. $ 19.50 (Hardcover).

Summary/Abstract: The crawling shift from the unipolar towards a multipolar or even ’multi-order’ world also brings about the ethical reassessments of the key concepts in international relations. Yoram Hazony, who is among the leading Israeli conservative scholarsand an occasional commentator in the US media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, took a bold but, after Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory, intellectually lucrative step to defend the international system based on nationalism as its driving force. In The Virtue of Nationalism, Hazony argues that nationalism is one of the two juxtaposed ever-present visions of the world order – the other being imperialism. In his opinion, nationalism is, unjustly and contrary to the empirical evidence, perceived as a principlethat is more parochial, destructive and dehumanising, reduced to its simplistic interpretations that link it to the horrors of the 20th century. In fact, he claims that it was European imperialism and its inherently universalistic logic that produced the unprecedented violence in the World Wars.

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