Book Review: Beyond Citizenship: American Identity after Globalization

Abstract

In Beyond Citizenship Peter Spiro advances a bracing premise: American citizenship has lost its meaning. Spiro tells the story of an institution's erosion - by forces from within, including our growing tolerance of dual citizenship and the openness of our naturalization laws, and forces from without, especially the proliferation of transnational identities and the dilution of American identity through the adoption of our culture and ideas around the globe.