This is currently in Bill Gates' bag and on the FT Books of 2018 lists.

The demands of identity are increasingly driving global politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have prevailed over broader, inclusive ideas about who we are. We have built walls instead of bridges. Result: the rising anti-immigrant sentiment, violent incidents on university campuses, and the return of open white supremacy in our politics.

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutional structures were in a state of decline as the state had been subordinated to powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were confirmed by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders, whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threaten to destabilize the international order. These populist nationalists seek a direct charismatic connection with 'the people', who are usually defined in narrower terms of identity, offering an irresistible call to an inner group and excluding large segments of the population as a whole.

Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a rigorous warning that, unless we create a universal understanding of human dignity, we will condemn ourselves to continuous conflict.

Pages: 240, Year of Publication: 0905, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm