List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Globalization and the Crisis of Identities; P.Kennedy PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION: CRISIS AND THREAT Russia in Search of Itself; C.J.Danks Identity and Conflict in Globalizing Times: Experiencing the Global in Areas Raged by Conflict and the Case of the Bosnian Serbs; I.Armakolas Identity in the Former GDR: Expressions of 'Ostalgia' and Ossi Pride' in United Germany; P.Hogwood 'You and Me Against the World:' Christian Fundamentalists and White Poverty in the USA; J.F.Scott PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION: OPPORTUNITY AND CREATIVE ADAPTATION Global Culture in the Thai Media: The Occidental 'Other' in TV Advertisements; A.Nedpogaeo Globalization, Identity and 'Ireland'; G.H.Fagan Civil-Military Relations and Professional Military Identities after the Nation-State; G.Segell On the Construction of Political Identity: Negotiations and Strategies Beyond the Nation-State; D.J.O'Byrne PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION: THE CHALLENGE OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE The Immigration of Foreign Workers: A Mirror of Israel's Changing Identity; W.Berthoniere Identities, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Some International Concerns; E.Stanley Globalization and National Identity Rituals in Brazil and the USA; the Politics of Pleasure versus the Politics of Protest; L.Langman Globalization and Alternative Approaches to the Transformation of Nation States: Scotland as a Test Case; J.W.Books Acronyms Bibliography Index