NATIONALISM, POPULISM AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE ETHICS OF UNIVERSALISM
NATIONALISM, POPULISM AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE ETHICS OF UNIVERSALISM

Summary/Abstract: Over the past couple of decades, both the news media and mainstream literaturehave been awash with stories of some sort of renascent nationalism and populism. Somecitizens have begun to express lack of confidence in core representative institutions,accusing politicians and entrepreneurs of having lost touch with the concerns of ordinarypeople. They demand protection from transnational economic forces undercuttingtheir access to jobs, wages, and benefits, and in addition, from the threats of terrorismassociated with Islamic extremism. In this piece, their questioning of liberal civil rightswas reviewed. Efforts at liberal homogenization were examined, and the charge thatconservative views trivialize the ethics of universal human care, love and collaboration,which are at the heart of creating enduring peace in the world, was considered.

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