Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: M. Zeki DUMAN

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Modernity,Post-Modernity,Nation-State,Identity,Multiculturalism

Özet: This study considers how and why national identities emerge over against monopolistic policies of global hegemony. It will also analyse the epistemic and ontological presuppositions of the modern and pre-modern approaches which are intended to overcome identity crises. Various dimensions and dangers of multicultural policies, which are offered as prescriptions by postmodernists for solving the problems of cultural conflict, will also be analysed. Nation-state models, as political forms of modernity, attempted to create a homogeneous national consciousness by dissolving sub-identities within a strong national identity. Postmodern rhetoric, using the same strategy, utilized ideological mystification. This resulted in the fragmentation of strong national identity and the destruction of social order and integration due to an exaggerated emphasis on a particular ego and cultural identity.     

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