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 fissures in globalization, bringing Trump to the White House and the victory of Brexit in Britain. The new German Empire rekindles national sentiments across Europe, while secessionist nationalisms, like those in Catalonia and Scotland, threaten the cohesion of historical states.

The change in scenery in the era of post-globalization raises the new National Issue: the conquest of national-popular sovereignty in rupture with the modern Empires of capital. Greece is heading towards a double national crisis.

The European strategy has led to the deadlocks of the memorandums, while the destabilization of the Eastern Mediterranean causes dangerous tensions in Greece-Turkey relations. Petros Papakonstantinou, in his new book, seeks the terms for a radical reorientation, outside of the stifling framework of Euro-Atlanticism.