The issue of identity is central to our debates over immigration, nationalism, and globalization. Some believe that globalization strengthens the country through more jobs, greater security, and a broader culture, while others fear that being part of a global economy that includes the movement of goods and people across borders weakens our sovereignty and increases the chances for terrorism.
In this email conversation between Matthew Rooney, the Bush Institute's Economic Growth Initiative Director and a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, and Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a widely-published historian, Catalyst Editor William McKenzie asks what national identity means to them and how they square that view with their support for the global economy.
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