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This regional stasis may worsen as a result of growing nationalism; an increase in social divisions within states; weapons proliferation and an increase in military spending; and environmental degradation.
The main lesson is that European countries cannot face down today’s resurgence of populist nationalism and jingoism unless they cooperate.
But the region’s “history problem” has been intensifying lately, with growing nationalism among major actors like China, Japan, and South Korea fueling disputes over everything from territory and natural resources to war memorials and textbooks.
And nobody plays the history card with quite as much relish as China, where President Xi Jinping is also relying on nationalism to legitimize his rule.
Indian nationalism has therefore always been the nationalism of an idea – the idea of one land embracing many, a land emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history and sustained by a pluralist political system.
Moreover, Putin has made ethnic nationalism a defining element of his foreign policy, using Crimea’s Russian-speaking majority to justify his adventure there.
Likewise, ethnic nationalism drove Hitler’s assault on the European order: the Sudetenland was mostly German, and the Austrian Anschluss was aimed at merging the two vital parts of the German nation.
Urban pride can also prevent extreme nationalism.
Both parties speak the same language – that of virulent nationalism – used by Europe's enemies, whether in Dresden or Moscow.
In Indonesia, economic nationalism is on the rise, implying a risk that economic policy will follow an inward-looking course.
Resource nationalism is on the rise, as is a backlash against free trade and inward FDI.
Russia, by contrast, is a more classic National Security State, now playing Western anxieties like a fiddle to consolidate its tightening grip on Ukraine and suppress domestic opposition with a tide of official nationalism.
Versions of nationalism as well as the ascendancy of religiously tinted forms of integrisme threaten the fabric of a free world.
Nationalism continues to produce powerful political “antibodies” to American and European meddling in other countries’ internal affairs.
In times of crisis, old-school Russian nationalism was mobilized in the service of Soviet interests.
Mao, too, focused Chinese nationalism almost entirely on the brave new world of Communism.
But the governments in Russia and China are guided by something much trickier to deal with: nationalism based on resentment.
The problem with nationalism based on resentment is that it impedes diplomacy, which is based on give and take.
But these powerful autocracies’ resentful nationalism still makes them harder to deal with than their more brutal, but less unpredictable, Communist predecessors.
Arab nationalism and its modernizing aspirations began to unravel after the Arab defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the 1986 oil-price collapse.
But, with the growing success of appeals to identity and renewed ethnic or religious nationalism, that is changing.
International conflict will be driven primarily by a domestic politics increasingly defined by status anxiety, distrust of institutions, and narrow-minded nationalism.
Xi’s triumph at the 19th National Congress has understandably fueled widespread speculation that his now-formidable power will enable him to impose his vision of hardline authoritarian rule, underpinned by Chinese nationalism, in the coming years.
Resurgent nationalism has revived the myth of a bygone golden age of ethnically and politically homogenous national states free of external constraints and not exposed to the negative consequences of globalization.
Today, nationalism is rising in almost all European countries, and it is directed primarily against foreigners and the EU.
The rising tide of nationalism cannot be pushed back unless the European idea regains its positive visionary power.
We do not need a victory by Trump, or by National Front leader Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential election, to know where the nationalism underlying the Brexit vote leads.
With public concerns about immigration fueling xenophobia and nationalism in the West, some countries are closing their borders.
But the way to address China’s internal tensions and emerging nationalism, and the resulting strains in its relationships with its neighbors, is not to put the region’s countries in the position of having to choose between China and the US.
While terrorism is rightly viewed as an illegitimate means, nationalism is a rational, and often legitimate, goal, and it is shared by many people who are not terrorists.
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