Investigates the resurgence of ethnicity and nationalism in the international arena. The post cold-war international order sustains the expansion of a market oriented global culture that transcends nation-states' boundaries, but the resurgence of ethnic and nationalist movements appears to contradict this globalising trend. Aims to examine the resurgence of ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporary world and evaluate the challenge that this resurgence imposes to a world of nation-states and to the post-cold war international order. The central question is to what extent is the nation state a viable and effective political unit in a world of global markets, inter-state organisations and political movements for ethnic resurgence. A number of case studies will be discussed.