The internationally renowned Marxist historian Perry Anderson presents a concise overview of the history of internationalism from the 18th century to the present day, in a dialectical relationship with the birth and development of nationalism, as, as he points out, the meaning of the first logically depends on a notion of the second.
The author presents the initial meaning of internationalism and traces its various transformations, noting the different significance that the term acquires each time, along with the frequent reversal to its opposite, as nationalism and internationalism penetrate and oppose each other within historical time.
The historian, Turkologist and internationalist Dimitris Kitsikis presents a brief and comprehensive but also accessible to the general public treatise on nationalism.
The author analyzes the phenomenon of the nation, its relationship with culture, and its connection to the ideologies of nationalism and internationalism, as well as the types of nationalism.
The author, using dialectics, concludes that for humanity to move from the divergence of nationalism to the convergence of internationalism, all nations must first have matured so that the true equality of nations leads to a global democracy, which is constituted by the cultural components of all nations.