Under the "America first" banner, Donald Trump was able to conquer the White House as the President in 2017. Two thirds of US citizens supported his approach which forced national interests into the ...

In our globalized world, cooperation between citizens of different countries should actually be a matter of course. But around the world, people prefer to cooperate with their own fellow citizens ...

AT a recent workshop I asked the participants to identify two major social evils in the context of the forthcoming general elections. Along with corruption, they mentioned biradri-ism, or parochialism ...

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. There is a parochialism to what passes for American critical thinking – or what ...

People's love for their local areas could be harnessed to tackle global environmental problems, researchers say. Parochialism (a focus on a local area) is often viewed negatively, and is sometimes ...

John Howard is a New South Welshman, but throughout his time in office he never wore it on his sleeve. Howard's nationalist fervour would surface at least once a year, when Queensland and NSW would ...

Lt General KJ Singh superannuated in August 2016 after 39 years of distinguished service. He commanded the formidable Western Command, an operationally committed Corps in the North East having borders ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. I share the optimism of the FT’s leader “The world must live with Covid this year” (FT View, January 4) but ...

I’m sorry, but your columnist Constanze Stelzenmüller (“How a quiet regional poll turned into a debate about Germany’s past and future”, Opinion, September 13) clearly did not follow Bavaria’s premier ...