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Instead, they invented the idea of shared sovereignty – the system of federalism that allows for multiple levels of government and for local, state, regional, and national loyalties to coincide, rather than compete.
Nor have ethnic loyalties always matched political boundaries.
Older tribal and clan loyalties in Africa were mangled by the boundaries drawn, in distant cities like Berlin, for colonially-created states whose post-independence leaders needed to invent new traditions and national identities.
But, if we increasingly associate ourselves with the world at large, our loyalties will expand, too.
Other loyalties are based on other kindred identities – not just religious or ethnic, but based on shared commercial, political, or other interests.
Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate economist, has argued that we can learn to live with these multiple identities and even thrive with the diversity of citizenship and loyalties that they allow us.
Unlike Chirac, he understands that it is counterproductive and unrealistic to ask countries like Bulgaria or Romania to choose between their European or Atlantic loyalties.
This approach appealed to the vast majority of Israelis, regardless of their political loyalties, and the victory in January’s Palestinian election by Hamas, which extols terrorism and demands Israel’s extinction, only reinforced the new strategic consensus.
Viewing such aid to local NGOs as undue interference in their affairs, a growing number of governments in the global south want to maintain or recover full control over cash flows from abroad – especially if they are destined for civil-society actors, which, because of their international connections, are viewed as having divided loyalties.
The area’s volatile situation provides Pakistan’s government an additional argument to insist that all refugees be repatriated – because, given their complicated tribal loyalties, they may constitute a domestic security threat.
Members of the federal government are driven by regional loyalties at some times, and by ideological commitments at other times; they all need to be negotiated when making decisions.
It is easy to assume that the recent split between Qatar, on the one hand, and Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, on the other, over Qatar’s support for jihadist groups reflects these countries’ allocation of loyalties.
Many political liberals regard nation-states and the loyalties they inspire as obstacles to the wider political integration of humanity.
Yet while their economies blossomed, power remained opaque, screened by personal loyalties, secret deals, corrupt practices.
Uruguay's voters divided along lines of ideology, not old loyalties.
The Middle East is in the early phases of a modern-day Thirty Years’ War, in which political and religious loyalties are destined to fuel prolonged and sometimes savage conflicts within and across national borders.
When the same words are uttered by Trump, an object of suspicion for much of the US security apparatus, they become just another part of the narrative spectacle by which he channels the loyalties and antipathies of his supporters.
While it is true that presidential elections in an age of social media and infotainment are as much about personalities as they are about party loyalties, perhaps more so, parliamentary elections are much less likely to follow this template.
Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and “fifth columns” have been strong.
As he increasingly divides his loyalties between East and West, he risks destabilizing the Middle East even further.
By weaponizing the immigration issue, Trump has convinced his supporters that they could lose their country to people with vastly different identities and tribal loyalties, owing to what he portrays as a kind of ethno-racial spoils system.
Leaders wishing to mold a society around a new and different set of ideas, loyalties, and forms of behavior first need to destroy adults’ existing identities and prevent the transmission of these identities to children.
So fickle are Trump’s loyalties that he reportedly “soured” on his third chief of staff before his pick had even started in the position.
Janissaries were not allowed to marry or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court.
His role in establishing enduring democracy in India, despite the tensions of caste, ethnicity, religion, and regional loyalties, made him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
Ghana's Dagomb conflict illustrates why governments should tread carefully with tribal loyalties.
People are more open about this than they once were, but a legacy of disapproval towards those who espouse tribal loyalties lingers.
Yet these loyalties are deepening.
So foreigners ignore tribal loyalties at their peril.
Failure to transcend tribalism suggests that Africans must learn to use their tribal loyalties for the good of their countries.
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