The Emperor Is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during World War I, it was a great success and the modern colonial borders of the Arab nation-states eventually emerged in the course of World War II.

Today, as nations are reconceiving their own postcolonial interpolated histories,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786995654
• ISBN13: 9781786995650
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"