Nationalism & Capitalism | Zlatko Hadžidedić on Liberalism, Sovereignty & Global Power
In this intellectually rigorous episode of Kianistan, we are joined by Zlatko Hadžidedić, Director of the Center for Nationalism Studies and author of Nations and Capital: The Missing Link in Global Expansion (Routledge, 2022) and Forced to be Free: The Paradoxes of Liberalism and Nationalism.Dr. Hadžidedić presents a bold and structurally grounded argument: that modern nationalism is not a primordial force, but a deliberate construct emerging alongside capitalism to stabilize societies and facilitate capital expansion. Drawing on theorists such as Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, and Karl…
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