Identity and popular politics

Mr Fukuyama describes identity as one's true inner self juxtaposed against the outer world of social norms and rules

Identity

The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

Francis Fukuyama 

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2018 

218 pages 

Rs 599

Ambushed by Brexit and the triumph of Donald Trump in 2016, Francis Fukuyama has set himself the task of explaining the origins and development of populist nationalism that has gripped the western world. Mr Fukuyama brings to this investigation historical gravitas and a pen that lucidly clarifies the most arcane of ideas. 

He sees the 30 years from the 1970s to the 2000s as a period that witnessed a massive expansion of democratic states, together with a significant growth in global trade and investment