Nation
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The tensions between its increasingly open economy and its still closed political system and institutions (established during the Stalin era in the 1950's) make China the most conflicted
nation
of consequence in the world today.
India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s prescient observation that “China, a
nation
of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness.”
There is a world of difference between an association of
nation
states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
Nehru called it “a moment that comes but rarely in history, when we pass from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”
It is the idea that a
nation
characterized by profound differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom can still rally around a democratic consensus – namely, that everyone needs to agree only on the ground rules of how to disagree.
So it adopted the identity of an Islamic Republic – a seemingly direct and logical evolution from “Muslims as a distinct nation” before partition to Pakistan as an “Islamic State” afterward.
When Alexander Hamilton, the first US finance minister, mutualised state debts in 1791, he thought this would cement the new American
nation.
Working-class white women in America have had their talents exploited and undervalued for as long as the
nation
has functioned.
"India is a very big country," Stalin observed, and then pointing to Sri Lanka said, "What is the name of this little Indian island?""That is not an Indian island, sir," the diplomat replied, "it is a sovereign nation."
This is because democracy within a
nation
is a settled idea.
At the same time, in no other large nation, save for outright dictatorships, have trade unions lost so many members and so much political leverage.
Confronted by multiple charges of corruption against his government, the prime minister’s address to the
nation
partly sought to divert attention from the scandals by focusing, bizarrely, on a litany of other problems, from high inflation and the Naxalite rebellion to persistent malnutrition and terrorist attacks.
“Effective participation by members of all racial and ethnic groups in the civil life of our nation,” the court said, “is essential if the dream of one nation, indivisible, is to be realized.”
Neither the US public nor Congress has proven willing to invest seriously in the instruments of
nation
building and governance as opposed to military force.
As is always the case, those who promote the concentration of power find justification for their acts in the revolutionary need to change structures, liberate the nation, and overcome poverty.
The most flagrant confusion is that which conflates state and
nation.
As a result, transferring resources to the state is seen as putting them into the hands of the
nation.
Moral Progress and Animal WelfarePRINCETON – Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a
nation
and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Workable solutions will lie not in ideology but rather in capitalizing on what the
nation
has to offer to the global economy: its stock of pristine ecology.
Furthermore, a “most favored nation” provision ensures that corporations can claim the best treatment offered in any of a host country’s treaties.
Now we must lead a
nation
in which – thanks to the cynical ploys and hate-filled rhetoric of a discredited regime – some sections seem to be set against the democracy we seek to build.
Ukrainians recoil, in anger and horror, at the very idea of dividing the
nation.
But foreign policy, as we have known it, is essentially a manifestation of the
nation
state or of the superpower.
A
nation
could put its own former leaders on trial, as the Argentines did in the 1980’s with the generals responsible for the disappearance of more than 5,000 fellow citizens.
In other words, they asserted their national sovereignty – their right as a
nation
to determine their own economic, social, and political path.
For liberals, by contrast, the
nation
is defined first and foremost by its legal commitments.
For Europe’s task is to maintain and strengthen structures of cooperation that retain the advantages of diversity and independence without reviving the old curse of the European
nation
state: xenophobia, bloodshed, and war.
Again as in Chile, they suggest that, while political regimes are transient, the heart and honor of a
nation
always rests with its Army.
By contrast, a higher growth rate would require fewer golf breaks for salarymen and significant immigration in a
nation
that is unaccustomed to foreign intrusion and different cultural habits.
For example, an analysis of Chinese media by Harvard University’s Alastair Iain Johnston concludes that, “Instead of a focus on anti-foreign ‘hostile forces,’ Xi’s primary ideological message is the ‘great revival of the Chinese nation.’”
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