Liah Greenfeld is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology at Boston University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is the author of Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience (Harvard University Press, 2013), Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Harvard University Press, 1992) and The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2001).
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Commentaries by Liah Greenfeld
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Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism
BOSTON – If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer …
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The Roots of Chinese/Japanese Rivalry
BOSTON – The anti-Japan protests that continue to roil China are just another indication of the rise of a potent Chinese nationalism. After …
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Nationalism and Terrorism
BOSTON – September 11, 2001, may – at least at first – seem like an inappropriate addition to the history of nationalism, given Al Qaeda’s e…
Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism
M Patel: Liah made too many assumptions: 1) She assumes that Tsarnaev brothers are both mentally ill but there is not a single media report indicating any illness. 2) Nationalism cannot be cause of mental …
Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism
Zsolt Hermann: I would like to challenge the opinion of the writer, giving it a twist based on the following 2 paragraphs: "...Nationalist principles emphasize the self-governing individual, including the right t…