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Before end-of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was limited to isolated occurrences of ethnics strife and civil war in remote nations. Today, with the fall of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold-War'd secure on east west relations, a rise of nationalism has taken the planet period. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a comprehensive study of why blood scarves--inplaces as varied as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, Northern Ireland, Quebec, Germany, and the former Soviet republics--will be the conclusive element in relation nowadays. He asks how ethnic delight converted into ethnic cleaning, whether contemporary residents may armed battle may be warranted why, why--and whether--a people require a state-of their very own, and place the spirits of the warring previous.