NATIONAISM/TRIBALISM

Here is a fascinating study of the impediments to globalization set by our fixation with 'the tribe'.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12616&R=ED9A394EF



Globalization isn't new, but the power of local beliefs, rooted in native earth, is far older. And those local beliefs may prove to be the more powerful, just as they have so often done in the past. From Islamist terrorists fighting to perpetuate the enslavement of women to the Armenian obsession with the soil of Karabakh--from the French rejection of "Anglo-Saxon" economic models to the resistance of African Muslims to Islamist imperialism--the most complex forces at work in the world today, with the greatest potential for both violence and resistance to violence, may be the antiglobal impulses of local societies. From Liège to Lagos, the tribes are back.