Humiliation
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Russia may not be openly pursuing a renewed Cold War, but, in enhancing its position in Latin America, it sees itself as ending years of implosion and
humiliation.
Nonetheless, China, burdened by 150 years of perceived
humiliation
by the West, does not take kindly to that reaction.
Nonetheless, as Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, points out, Robert Gates, who headed the CIA in the early 1990s, later conceded that the West, and particularly the US, “badly underestimated the magnitude of Russian
humiliation
in losing the Cold War.”
In its relationships with smaller countries like Sri Lanka, China is replicating the practices used against it in the European-colonial period, which began with the 1839-1860 Opium Wars and ended with the 1949 communist takeover – a period that China bitterly refers to as its “century of humiliation.”
Russia's sense of
humiliation
has brought a new seriousness and long-term thinking that are necessary for a real turnaround.
The fleeting
humiliation
of an electoral defeat is just a footnote that was by and large inevitable.
The Chinese also pushed hard to make the handover ceremony itself a
humiliation
for Britain.
At an even deeper and atavistic level, there is an emotional clash between a culture of fear and a culture of
humiliation.
In the Arab world, in particular, Islam is dominated by a culture of
humiliation
felt by the people and nations that consider themselves the main losers, the worst victims, of a new and unjust international system.
Here, perhaps, is the real clash of civilizations: the emotional conflict between the European culture of fear and the Muslim, particularly Arab, culture of
humiliation.
But China’s history of
humiliation
at the hands of European colonial powers has made its leaders ardent supporters of inviolable national rights and suspicious of any sacrifice of sovereignty.
China, apparently still reeling from a “century of humiliation” at the hands of outsiders, will not be pushed around by America.
There is every reason to believe that a nationalist reaction by the Russian electorate against a perceived
humiliation
would be the net effect of rapid expansion of NATO.
The Survivalist in the KremlinWASHINGTON, DC – Vladimir Putin’s improbable rise to the pinnacle of Russian power in 1999-2000 was partly the result of an elite consensus about the importance of restoring order to the Russian state after a decade of domestic crisis and international
humiliation.
The model works by propagating a narrative describing the severe injustices and
humiliation
suffered by Muslims, advancing an ideology that identifies the means to remove the grievances, and then letting sympathizers recruit themselves to Al Qaeda or initiate their own operations.
Torture and the Politics of AmbiguityEach new revelation of physical abuse, maltreatment, and sexual
humiliation
of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers shocks international public opinion, leaving officials to scramble desperately to contain the damage.
A Rest Stop for EuropePRINCETON – Last week, in a highly anticipated speech, German President Joachim Gauck cautioned against the blind pursuit of an “ever-closer” European Union, acknowledging that the growing inequality among member states is generating “a sense of unease, even unmistakable anger,” and increasing the risk of national
humiliation.
Call China’s recent actions revenge for a century of
humiliation
by stronger powers.
The questions asked of politicians by journalists are often so aggressive or implicitly insulting that one wonders why their recipients don’t walk out of interviews in a huff, or wither on the spot from
humiliation.
These new friends liked the ruthless use of force, the ethnic nationalism, the continued
humiliation
of the Palestinians.
Fear, resentment, and distrust ran very high in Weimar Germany, after the
humiliation
of wartime defeat and amid a devastating economic depression.
Beyond facing daily
humiliation
at checkpoints, Palestinians have seen Israeli settlers destroy their crops and olive groves, and even torch a West Bank home, burning three family members and killing a toddler.
Now he wants recognition as a statesman, money, and, at least implicitly, Sistani’s and the SCIRI’s
humiliation.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable
humiliation.
In Indian culture, the gold possessed by a household’s women has often been seen as a guarantee of the family’s honor; surrendering the nation’s gold to foreigners was a national
humiliation
that the old protectionism could not survive.
And, indeed, Greece’s
humiliation
in the negotiations evoked memories of the Indonesian president’s treatment by the IMF during the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
Both Romania’s recent treaty with Hungary (in which each country recognized, at long last, their common border), the campaign of the winning coalition led by current president Emil Constantinescu (which ousted Iliescu), and the various economic and diplomatic steps taken ever since Constantinescu and his allies came to power, are geared to Romanian accession to NATO, which is presented as a solution to all the country’s ills.This rejection by NATO, for which possibility the government made no effort to prepare the population, will likely be seen as a national humiliation, a sign that no matter how virtuously they behave Romanians will never be considered as real EuropeansA more prudent strategy is that pursued by Ukraine, which tries to keep good relations with Russia while giving priority to relations with the West.
Cheney’s influence resulted in the bloody disaster of Iraq, the moral
humiliation
of Guantanamo, water-boarding and “extraordinary rendition,” the despair of friends and the contempt of critics, a full-dress parade of double standards around the globe.
Caught by surprise in Tibet, and by the virulence and popularity of what they described as “anti-Chinese” sentiments, China’s rulers have resorted to the traditional tools of authoritarian regimes, turning their citizens’ deep nationalism and sense of
humiliation
against Western critics.
There is no isolation from globalized markets, your neighbors’ identity crises, or the
humiliation
felt by those you have tried with so much (at times misguided) energy to integrate.
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