Belonging
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Of the region’s foreign fighters, Uzbeks
belonging
to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan have recently become the most visible threat, taking responsibility for the June 8-9 attack on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, in which 30 people, including all ten of the militants, were killed.
Some 814 million eligible voters will elect, for the 16th time, a new parliament and government, casting their ballots at more than 930,000 polling stations – after choosing from an estimated 15,000 candidates
belonging
to more than 500 political parties.
Communal bonds can withstand economic strain; they dissolve when shared values are trampled and a sense of
belonging
is lost.
With communism’s collapse, the divided Europe created at Yalta disappeared, and EU expansion was no longer confined to states
belonging
to the Western orbit.
But its revival is a portent of what happens when a form of politics claims to satisfy every human need except the coziness of communal
belonging
– and then lets the people down.
To create functioning collaborative organizations, humans have evolved a sense of “us,” a feeling of
belonging
to what the historian and political scientist Benedict Anderson famously called an “imagined community.”
The question is not primarily one of employment, or even poverty, but of marginalization and alienation, of the lack of a sense of
belonging.
And, as it explicitly states, it is “based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation,” with sovereignty
belonging
“to the Spanish people.”
The nation state has been, and continues to be, the relevant unit of
belonging
and civic involvement for most human beings for more than two centuries.
Kennedy’s eyes had been opened by a July 1962 US atmospheric nuclear test that inadvertently destroyed at least six satellites, including some
belonging
to the USSR.
Most are Indonesians
belonging
to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Mujahidin Kompak, and other Darul Islam factions.
The reception and adoption of democracy is not a function of sectarian belonging, but a reflection of the multi-dimensional historical, cultural, religious, and political identities of Iraqi individuals.
Islamist extremism is a handy revolutionary creed for vulnerable young people to latch onto, to gain a sense of power and
belonging.
In the worst-case scenario, they are recruited by extremist groups that seem to offer what they are missing: a sense of belonging, identity, and purpose.
Ironically, it is May’s notion that there is a single way of
belonging
to Britain’s political community that is un-British.
An EU committed to its own defense, although not offering the same formal guarantees as NATO, offers candidate countries the prospect of
belonging
to a genuine security community.
These citizens are guilty only of
belonging
to the three tribes (Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa) that spawned the rebels who took up arms against the government a few years ago.
Because mankind has a deep yearning for a sense of
belonging
and for leadership, humans naturally form groups with established leaders.
And in the 1990s, from Bosnia to Rwanda, thousands upon thousands of human beings were massacred for
belonging
to the wrong ethnicity.
Finally, one would hope that the concept of
belonging
to the same Mediterranean family could bring about new solutions to old conflicts – for example, offering Palestinians and Israelis alike the healing that both peoples desire, but which the dying old Arab order failed to achieve.
This renewed sense of
belonging
to the same human family and the same moral universe resonated profoundly with Mediterranean Europeans, who found, in the claims and expectations emerging on the opposite shore, echoes of their own unfulfilled claims and expectations.
For them, national identity should be abandoned in favor of a European identity, even if the feeling of
belonging
to Europe is not deeply held among the peoples of the EU.
Both democracy, with its concomitant sense of belonging, and globalization, driven by cosmopolitan cities open to the world, can thrive, without causing any country to lose sovereignty.
They would not be the first vulnerable young people to adopt a revolutionary cause to give themselves a sense of power and
belonging.
While legal harmonization and constitution- making attest to deepening integration, Europe's institutions have failed to generate what every political community needs in order to survive and thrive: a feeling of
belonging.
Despite
belonging
to the EU and its single market, Germany would be one of the biggest losers, owing to its trade dependencies and the current state of transatlantic power relations.
In Europe, the power of the European Union, often-uncontrolled immigration, and economic globalization are challenging feelings of national belonging, of being represented by national governments, or of sharing national cultures.
Unfortunately, pan-national movements do not have a good track record of nurturing a common sense of
belonging.
Pan-Europeanism comes more naturally to Catholics than to Protestants, because they have traditionally found a sense of
belonging
in the Roman Church, which often coincided with the idea of Europe.
Modern societies are characterized by acute problems of
belonging.
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