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It would be understandable -- and rather unimportant -- if such attacks came merely from the old, traditional, and nationalist sectors of society, those parties that cling to ancient taboos everywhere.
For many Palestinians, Qudwa, a soft-spoken, multi-lingual nationalist (and Arafat’s nephew), presents an acceptable face for Palestine locally and internationally.
The nationalist thrust of Trump’s inaugural address echoed the isolationism championed by the racist aviator Charles Lindbergh, who, as a spokesman for the America First Committee, lobbied to keep the US out of World War II.
Trump may pursue a nationalist version of what is typically a leftist demand: a debt jubilee or write-off.
He might also want to reconsider his triumphalist rhetoric, given US President Donald Trump’s nationalist sensitivities and protectionist bullying.
Doubts about the future of the European project in the wake of the euro crisis could push voters away from pro-European reformers and towards nationalist politicians.
Seen as too pro-American because of his support of the recent war in Afghanistan, Musharraf needs to burnish his nationalist credentials.
The hard men of his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) look likely to do as they are told.
Now the political clash between the two men – both playing the Sinhalese nationalist card while wooing the Tamil minority – has overshadowed the serious economic and political challenges confronting Sri Lanka.
The result is that they are feeling less French or German, creating greater political room, on both the left and the right, for nationalist ressentiment.
Indonesia, like Europe, is confronting growing pressure from nationalist and populist voices seeking to displace the five principles of tolerance – the “Pancasila” – that underpin Indonesian statehood.
The role of fear – fueled and manipulated by political interests, nationalist sentiment, and religious intolerance – in shaping the immigration debate is not exclusive to the US.
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.
A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward-looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.
The head of an unlikely alliance of reformist Islamists, secular civil-society groups, and Iraq’s communist party, Sadr won the recent parliamentary election by promising a nationalist drive to oust Iran from Iraq.
By obscuring the role that local populations played in both Nazi and communist crimes, such laws help to advance nationalist narratives, which can prove very handy for politicians looking to win popular support.
Now, memory laws have become one of the preferred instruments of nationalist populists attempting to consolidate their own power – and to incite the very xenophobic nationalism that once provided fertile soil for the Holocaust.
The assumption underlying such nationalist bombast – that a country’s interests are better served by being closed rather than open – is extremely dangerous.
In the 1950’s, Japanese ministers and industrialists sometimes relied on nationalist elements of Yakuza groups to quash unions and socialists.
Those of us who are active in building a pan-European progressive political movement believe that only transnationality-in-action can counter the sectarian, nationalist narratives that conceal the underlying struggle.
But a nationalist backlash doomed Yeltsin’s efforts.
Given his record, Vladimir Putin would not face the type of nationalist backlash Yeltsin confronted if he sought to reach an agreement that restored Japan’s sovereignty over its Northern Territories.
If nationalist Euroskeptic parties become the largest group in the European Parliament, these appointments could represent an abrupt break from the past.
And there are new players on the field, including French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist La République En Marche! and a smattering of radical Euroskeptic and nationalist parties.
Given the unprecedented prominence of nationalist parties in this election cycle, the usual pro forma European campaign issues will inevitably take a back seat.
Make no mistake: a nationalist victory next year would rock the EU to its core and throw it into another deep crisis.
By representing the aspirations of middle class Israelis seeking a better economic deal, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett of the nationalist Jewish Home party became the two sides of a newly minted political coin, one backed by an inward-looking ethnic and national identity in a country that sees itself as alone in the world.
The particular tragedy of Trump’s rhetoric – and, arguably, its most pernicious effect – is that he has convinced many Americans to view themselves as part of a white nationalist movement.
China’s Triumph of the WillMOSCOW – When the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games begins in a few days, viewers will be presented with a minutely choreographed spectacle swathed in nationalist kitsch.
Yet Turkey now faces three foes on its southern border: Assad, ISIS, and nationalist Kurds.
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