The nation is the great survivor of the ideological collapses of our time. In the East, Vladimir Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China challenge America's hegemony by investing in patriotism. In the West, the great crisis of 2008 opened rifts in globalization, bringing Trump to the White House and Brexit to Britain. The new German Empire revives national sentiments throughout Europe, while separatist nationalisms, like Catalonia and Scotland, threaten the cohesion of historical states.

The changing landscape in the post-globalization era brings to the forefront the new National Question: the conquest of national-popular sovereignty in rupture with the modern Empires of capital. Greece is heading towards a dual national crisis. The European strategy has led to the impasse of memoranda, while the destabilization of the Eastern Mediterranean causes dangerous tensions in the Greece-Turkey relations. In his new book, Petros Papakonstantinou seeks the terms for a radical reorientation, outside the suffocating framework of Euro-Atlanticism.