The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis

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Demos, 1994 - Ethnic groups - 87 pages
 

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Page 5 - Yet - and this is the truth before which thinking about politics has stalled - the more evident our common needs as a species become, the more brutal becomes the human insistence on the claims of difference. The centripetal forces of need, labour and science which are pulling us together as a species are counter-balanced by centrifugal forces, the claims of tribe, race, class, section, region and nation, pulling us apart.
Page 17 - In a world where capital has no fixed abode and financial flows are largely beyond the control of national governments, many of the levers of economic policy no longer work.
Page 16 - It is no longer obvious what it means to describe the Midland Bank or ICL as British (or for that matter companies like British Petroleum, British Airways, British Gas and British Telecom).
Page 21 - One of the strengths of those trying to cultivate the 'politics of the soil' is that they inherit well fertilised ground.
Page 61 - There is also a need for rapid military intervention forces to uphold global order and for strong rules and institutions to manage an increasingly interdependent world economy (and some of its environmental side effects).
Page 52 - No less important is the need for strong rules and institutions to manage an increasingly interdependent world economy (and some of its environmental side effects).
Page 7 - The very existence of alien people and practices is offensive and a threat to identity. At the other pole are people whose overriding commitment is to individual choice in personal mores and lifestyles.
Page 60 - But, imperfect though they may be, legal safeguards, and not street politics, provide the only sustainable defence for minorities against discrimination and injustice.
Page 4 - The argument advanced here is that there is: based on the alternative political possibilities created by movements based on cultural identity or what Isaiah Berlin has called 'the politics of the soil'.
Page 57 - The traditional division between left and right is being replaced by the political divisions created by movements based on cultural identity or what Isaiah Berlin has called 'the politics of the soil'.

About the author (1994)

Sir John Vincent Cable is a British politician and economist and author of "The Storm" and "Free Radical".

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