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In Europe, the rise of political opposition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Brexit vote, and the growing appeal of nationalist parties on the right can all be attributed to real and imagined fears stemming from refugees.
The dream of peace, the nationalist fervor, and the purported religious redemption that animated Israel’s political combatants for a half-century are gone, replaced by a resigned pragmatism.
Many such voters once supported the CDU and CSU, but were attracted by the AfD’s nationalist, xenophobic platform.
Competing nationalist movements were on the rise in a disintegrating Austro-Hungarian Empire.
But Rabin was assassinated by a fanatic Jewish nationalist because of his willingness to make this compromise.
Eurozone member states have increasingly gone their own way, even overtly defending nationalist economic policies that harm the eurozone as a whole.
The great unanswered question is how long Putin will be able to rely on nationalist kitsch to overwhelm Russians’ rational calculation of their interests.
I thought it necessary to remind those in Romania who did not know, or who wanted to forget, about the tragedy to which the nationalist option once led.
My essay, which dealt with past and present implications of the intellectual’s involvement with totalitarian nationalist ideology, touched a raw nerve with the Romanian public.
The legacy of the nationalist tradition, obscured and manipulated by the Communists for decades, today presents itself in Romania with an aura of mystery and martyrdom before a public in the throes of an identity crisis and thirsting for a new communitarian mythology.
Given this, it is worth asking whether the latest slogan adopted by Chinese officials – “Asia for Asians” – is merely nationalist posturing for domestic consumption or a signal of a genuine policy shift.
Though some analysts remain convinced that Xi’s “Asia for Asians” line is an empty attempt to bolster his nationalist credentials, an equally strong case can be made that it signifies a genuine policy shift.
For others, exasperated by football and the emotions it stirs up, the sport is no longer a game, but a type of war that stokes the basest sort of nationalist emotions.
The strange divergence between the real world and the world of soccer this year was also evident in expressions of nationalist emotion.
But in the 2018 World Cup – a century after the end of the nationalist bloodbath that was World War I – a “soft,” even gentle nationalism prevailed.
Liberty, equality, and fraternity are enemies of the nationalist, extremist, and europhobic visions benighting Europe today.
For example, despite nationalist rhetoric by state enterprises and associated trade unions, the government should decide that the vast telecommunications network should be privatized, including to foreign investors.
To support these efforts, China’s propaganda machine has probably been instructed to tone down nationalist rhetoric and cut out content that might offend its neighbors.
In Xinjiang, the locals willingly participated in the political redistribution of land and wealth and looked forward to the end of a three-way civil war that had trapped the region between competing Russian, Chinese Communist, and Chinese Nationalist interests.
It may sound archaic in high-tech politics of the new millennium, but the ability to deflate the ideological boasts of nationalist prophets by old-fashioned and straightforward opposition is the key to change.
To succeed with this bold and necessary agenda, Latin America’s left must purge its dangerous and destructive nationalist and authoritarian strains.
Theirs is a nationalist international – a classic creature of a deflationary period – united by contempt for liberal democracy and the ability to mobilize those who would crush it.
Brexit would reinforce this trend, bolstering Europe’s nationalist and Euroskeptic forces.
Owing to its success in settling other longstanding national conflicts, the EU was tasked with bridging the region’s longstanding nationalist divides and quelling its ethnic conflicts.
Turkey and Syria still have border disputes; for many Syrians, scenes of Turkish troops crossing the border, even behind lines of Syrian opposition fighters, would rally nationalist pride and strengthen Assad’s narrative of foreign-inspired terrorism and insurgency.
The third component is sometimes called “Sunni nationalist,” but that phrase is a misnomer, because this group’s members are less concerned with Iraq as a nation than with Sunni domination of post-Hussein Iraq and responding to what they see as personal injustices or abuses.
Indeed, it was fear of nationalist violence that led then-US President George H.W. Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to try to help the USSR’s last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, hold the Soviet Union together (though only after having allowed the Baltic States to secede).
Though Putin has cultivated nationalism in Russia – according to Harvard University’s Timothy Colton, at a recent meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin called himself the country’s “biggest nationalist” – he found fertile ground to plow.
And this is happening at a time when anti-European, nationalist forces are establishing themselves in Germany’s national and state parliaments – and on the streets – thereby substantially reduce Chancellor Angela Merkel’s room for compromise.
The nationalist trend has continued unabated ever since.
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