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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /480/ Reading Club: 21st Century Internationalism
Description: On Perry Anderson's "Internationalism: A Breviary".
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We kick off the second block/theme of the 2024/25 Reading Club on Nations & Internationalism in the 21st Century by looking at a 2002 essay which charts nationalism against internationalism from the Atlantic revolutions through to the age of globalisation. It is particularly apposite to revisit this text in light of an acceleration in de-globalisation brought on by the second Trump presidency.
What are the cultural aspects of "internationalism"?
While nationalism can be good or bad, internationalism is...