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Otherwise, pro-growth reforms will lose political legitimacy, enabling destructive nationalist, nativist, and protectionist forces to continue to gain traction and thus to undermine medium- and longer-term growth.
This has given nationalist parties the perfect target for their anti-EU campaigns.
Even Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union is in many ways de facto a social democratic, and certainly not a nationalist, party.
Because Abe is the nationalist grandson of a former prime minister who was once arrested as a war criminal, and because he has paid public tribute to soldiers who died for the emperor in World War II, these protests might seem reasonable.
Both have had to expend a great deal of political capital, confronting domestic nationalist forces and facing down no-confidence motions spearheaded by opposition parties.
Despite their nationalist rhetoric, when the economic winds blow against them, it can be hard to change direction.
An increasingly organized coalition of nationalist forces that are hostile to European integration – and, indeed, to European values – has been gaining traction and cohesion.
Opposition to the EU is not new; nor are nationalist parties.
Beyond the clear irony of the far right’s internationalism, this unification of nationalist parties into a Europe-wide force is highly dangerous – not least because these forces have coalesced around a clear, forceful, and, for many, compelling message.
Unless those who understand the value of the EU wake up soon and respond effectively to their increasingly unified nationalist adversaries, it will be too late.
Each man profoundly dislikes the other’s country and panders to their nationalist supporters, who occasionally take their deep-rooted passions to extremes.
Such a federal state can be justified by claiming that the moral substance of traditional nation states has been deeply compromised by past belligerence, or as a practical preventive measure to keep the potential of new nationalist passions in check.
Some dismiss the dangers of this nationalist resurgence, arguing that economic interdependence will protect us from our own atavistic urges.
If taken to extremes, Russian society’s response to its wrenching modernization could degenerate into a nationalist revolution led by xenophobes.
It might be some sort of “democratic nationalist revolution” – spontaneous, and not made by any one political party but by a popular mass movement.
These are the key ingredients in the nationalist stew that seems to appeal to Russians nowadays.
But, precisely because Lee is regarded as a pro-Japanese conservative, he needs to burnish his nationalist credentials.
That ethnic Chinese Malaysians rallied to Dr. Mahathir's side marks a quiet revolution in Malaysian politics, one that demonstrates how much Mahathir's nationalist image has softened during his 22 years in power.
It also shows how much Malaysia's ethnic Chinese have changed in their views about the nationalist movement that once seemed so antagonistic to them.
When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.
Their current leaders include men like Palestine National Council head Salim al-Zanun and Fatah ideological chief Sakr Habash, who favor continuing to battle Israel until it is destroyed, at which point they will rule Palestine with a relatively secular nationalist regime.
Palestine will then be an Islamist state in which moderates would be shot and the old nationalist leadership forcibly retired or jailed for corruption.
According to this nationalist narrative, Serbia had been forced to accept that it was just one republic among six, even though Serbs, who were spread out across Yugoslavia, comprised almost half of the country’s total population.
Despite nationalist parties' success in France, the same is true of the setback for President Jacques Chirac's centre-right party.
It is liberal, and despises any sort of fanaticism, whether orthodox or nationalist.
It did not take long for the normalization of nationalist rhetoric to affect the daily lives of Britain’s immigrant population.
More recently Taiwan is threatened with military maneuvers across the straights, even the firing of test missiles in its direction, whenever independence is suggestedParadoxically, nationalist chest pounding is motivated not by the strength and confidence that Chinese leaders wish to project, but by deep-seated fear of weakness.
It would be a pity if these concerns continued to be distorted by hard-line Chinese leaders engaging in nationalist rhetoric aimed at convincing their people that Americans and others stand opposed to China's legitimate national aspirations.
If he wishes to consolidate it abroad and prove his acumen as an effective international world leader as well, he will seek to end this charade of nationalist posturing that sees "hostile foreign forces" bent on humiliating and weakening China.
While intensely nationalist movements such as Mussolini’s fascists and Adolf Hitler’s Nazis did compete with one another over who was more genuinely fascist, they ultimately united to oppose the liberal order.
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