Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Mark Luccarelli is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. His books include The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865. Rosario Forlenza is Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University. He is the author of On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943-1948. Steven Colatrella is Adjunct Professor of International Political Theory at the University of Padua, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Government and Sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He is the author of Workers of the World: African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s.