Civil war

The three essays in Civil War examine the most urgent subject of our time: nationalism and its deadly consquences. Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what is our world like? Is it even possible to count the number of civil wars currently being waged? And what about the little wars, the molecular ones, acts of crowd violence, race riots, burning down hostels for foreigners, street fights on a Saturday night?*It is now a commonplace that the end of the Cold War did not establish a new world order: if anything, it has served only to magnify, even multiply, struggles that have lain dormant for decades. Is it possible that in these conflicts we find our true nature?In Civil War, Hans Magnus Enzensberger—one of Europe’s greatest poets, essayists and commentators—offers an honest, tinapologetic examination of the disturbing reality behind the rhetoric of a united Europe.