Economic nationalism in a globalizing world - Eric Helleiner

Is economic nationalism an outdated phenomenon in light of globalization? Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World demonstrates the enduring, and even heightened, economic significance of national identities and nationalism in the current age. The volume's contributors, pioneers in the reinterpretation of economic nationalism, explore diverse ways in which national identities and nationalism continue to shape contemporary economic policies and processes.

The authors examine the question in a range of geographical contexts and issues: European Union food politics, competitiveness strategies in New Zealand, East Asian development strategies, Japanese liberalization, monetary politics in Quebec and Germany, and post-Soviet economic reforms. Together, the cases explore the policy breadth of nationalism. It is not just a "protectionist" ideology but is in fact associated with a wide variety of economic policies, including support for economic liberalization and globalization.

Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance and The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (both from Cornell), and coeditor of Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present, and Future of National Currencies. Andreas Pickel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Trent University. He is the author of Radical Transitions: The Survival and Revival of Entrepreneurship in the GDR, coauthor of The Grand Experiment: Debating Shock Therapy, Transition Theory and the East German Case, and coeditor of Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences.