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In many countries, nationalist and anti-establishment political forces have gained ground.
The Revolution of 1911 was inspired by the example of Japan’s Meiji Restoration; and, because early-twentieth-century Japan was stridently nationalistic, the new China that emerged from its image was constructed on nationalist principles as well.
Mao’s speech on the establishment of the People’s Republic plainly expressed the nationalist agenda behind it.
But neither the Russian nor the Chinese Communists were ever unclear about the nationalist nature of their respective projects.
The upper echelons of the bureaucracy and intelligentsia in Russia and China were self-consciously nationalist and, throughout Communist rule, shrewdly pursued the supreme nationalist goal: prestige – the power, naked and otherwise, to impose the nation’s will on others.
For the West, there is a silver lining in this nationalist rivalry: neither China nor Japan is a rogue state, and, so long as their quarrels do not lead to the use of unconventional weapons, we may treat the friction between them as an internal Asian quarrel.
If it gets carried away and presumes to talk down to the 5,000-year-old culture of the Sages, the West could become the next object of China’s nationalist resentment.
While the British have been particularly open about the nationalist nature of their support for European integration, other EU members have been no less mindful of their domestic interests.
For India’s nationalist leaders, this meant that every foreigner with a briefcase should be viewed as the thin edge of a neo-imperial wedge.
Euroskeptic and nationalist parties, not to mention some on the extreme left, would be strengthened across the EU.
Admittedly, the fierce popular backlash against Western media was partially motivated by nationalist ardor, which played into the government’s hands.
Greater labor mobility within the EU would also help to create a more open European mindset, and thus weaken old nationalist prejudices.
But Abe comes into office with a reputation as a stronger nationalist than his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, whose insistence on visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine (where Class A war criminals from World War II are buried) helped sour relations with China.
Like Turkey, India, Brazil, or South Africa, transforming countries in the Arab world are likely to pursue a rather nationalist agenda.
People all over the world – and particularly in Europe – want to know how Brexit will unfold, not just to manage its specific effects, but also to gain insight into what is likely to happen if other upcoming votes tip in favor of nationalist agendas.
The same would be true for any other nationalist political figure or party that came to power.
Majority support for democracy in a country with no prior secular and nationalist history seems counter-intuitive.
In the US – which, tellingly, avoided the nationalist surge – this effort had already been embodied in the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act.
The nationalist government that followed, which established the Republic of China, also failed to address the tension between centralization and fragmentation – what the macro-historian Ray Huang called China’s “mathematical unmanageability.”
Here, the fundamental difference in the worldview of liberal or social democrats and hardline ideologues, whether nationalist or otherwise, may be the most consequential.
A boycott would merely provoke nationalist hostility in China.
Had the start of accession negotiations been postponed or canceled, Turkey’s pro-Europeans would have suffered from a nationalist backlash.
As the last US ambassador in Belgrade, Warren Zimmermann, has pointed out, similarities rather than differences among Balkan peoples made them vulnerable to nationalist manipulation.
Victory for Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a resurgent Taliban in the wake of the United States’ impending troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s continuing failure to negotiate with or suppress the Pakistani Taliban, point to a period of intense uncertainty and potential conflict.
Political Islam of all colors has emerged as the main alternative to secular Arab nationalist regimes whose legitimacy, based on the struggle for national liberation, has evaporated due to their inability to resolve economic and social problems, establish the rule of law, and guarantee fundamental freedoms.
But, even with the nationalist, populist candidate Marine Le Pen still in the running, many observers are genuinely hopeful that the first-round winner, Emmanuel Macron, will be France’s next president.
And foreign intervention in the French Revolution only fanned nationalist flames.
He was a determined nationalist, a key leader of the independence struggle, and a lieutenant of Mahatma Gandhi.
There is a particular irony to a self-proclaimed “Hindu nationalist” like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label.
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