Ruling Tactics

by Brian Martin

Most people think of the world as divided into countries, and many people identify with their “own” country. Because there’s nothing natural in this, governments and others need to continually encourage identification with the nation. This serves those with power and wealth. Ruling Tactics outlines the methods commonly used to foster everyday nationalism and how they can be countered. These methods are described in a range of areas, including crime, sport, language, economics, terrorism and war. This book can serve as a practical manual for recognising how thinking is oriented towards the state, and how this sort of thinking can be changed.

268 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2017

About the author

Brian Martin is emeritus professor of social sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He earned a BA in physics at Rice University in Texas in 1969, and, after emigrating to Australia he earned a PhD in physics at the University of Sydney in 1976.