ABSTRACT
The Conclusion relates the recent rise of xenophobic populism (including the racist alt-right) to the dialectic of nationalism and ‘globalism’ addressed in the book. It also engages in a dialogue with Trautsch’s useful Introduction. Finally, it reviews the eight case studies, highlighting salient contributions in each chapter. While much preferring civic nationalism to ethnic nationalism, as do all the authors in the volume, Beiner draws attention to the risk that even appeals to a civic nation are capable of mutating into an ethnos-based nationalism, since there is a kind of unlimited elasticity to the nationalist imagination. Hence the Conclusion ultimately suggests civicism as an alternative to civic nationalism.
