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The evidence is as ample as it is harrowing, from the 29 schoolboys killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in the Nigerian state of Yobe earlier this year and Somali schoolchildren forced to become soldiers to Muslim boys attacked by ethnic Burmese/Buddhist nationalists in Myanmar and schoolgirls in Afghanistan and Pakistan who have been firebombed, shot, or poisoned by the Taliban for daring to seek an education.
To date, unfortunately, Turkey’s nationalists, within both state and society, have opted for the former option.
If the UK chooses to stay under the conditions Cameron has negotiated, the result will be the strengthening of the anti-EU alliance between conservative liberals and illiberal nationalists.
Radical Hindu nationalists founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a voluntary Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization that remains a strong influence on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today.
The Hindu nationalists in India were reacting, understandably enough, to the shame of colonial subjugation.
It is absurd to think that a human-rights activist could be barred from the EU for criticizing one government while far-right white nationalists like Bannon can freely traipse around the continent fomenting extremism and Islamophobia.
Humiliation was a force strong enough to unite leftists and nationalists, laying the groundwork for the creation of an unconventional post-election coalition between Syriza and the hard-right Independent Greeks party.
There is, therefore, a case to be made that populism can be taken back from the nationalists and used to advance European integration and political globalization.
The relatively homogeneous society envisaged by its founders has fragmented into a tense multi-ethnic tapestry comprising secular Jews, an alienated Arab minority, a prolific ultra-orthodox community living on state allowances, religious nationalists bent on a Messianic brand of Zionism, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, marginalized Ethiopians, and Oriental Jews still struggling to join the middle class.
Russia’s nationalists are also outraged by Putin’s foreign policy, because it has alienated former Soviet republics and weakened Russia’s military.
So far, Scottish nationalists have insisted that an independent Scotland would retain the pound.
The problem with the Scottish nationalists’ vision is a mirror image of the eurozone’s main shortcoming.
Despite the obstacles that Israeli peace activists face – including intimidation and violence by right-wing nationalists – their movement has persevered.
In fact, it is something of an iron law of politics that only foreign-policy hawks and nationalists can deliver such outcomes: consider US President Richard Nixon’s opening to China in 1972, or Charles de Gaulle’s resolution of France’s war in Algeria.
But flexicurity is bound to fail badly in France, thus strengthening Le Pen’s xenophobic nationalists, because it can work only in a macroeconomic environment of investment-led growth.
These created confidence amongst Irish nationalists north and south, allowing them to compromise over sovereignty, including the acceptance of multiple identities and diverse allegiances.
Still worse, the nationalists in Europe (such as the United Kingdom’s Brexiteers) claim that the EU budget is too large, not woefully small.
So nationalists in Russia, Serbia, and Romania draw on deep-rooted beliefs that their nations have special historical missions.
Romania's two million ethnic Hungarians, the main political targets of Romanian nationalists, represent a bridge to the EU, because Hungary will be a member of the EU three years before Romania.
This realignment, uniting disillusioned Labour politicians and voters with Liberal Democrats, Greens, and perhaps Scottish and Welsh nationalists, is likely to produce an opposition that is much more effective than May currently faces, even if it has fewer parliamentary seats.
Moreover, owing to the extended transition period for Brexit made possible by the early election, it will only be around 2022 that the full consequences of terminating EU membership come into view, together with the contradictions in the Brexit coalition between libertarian free traders and socially conservative nationalists and protectionists.
Blood-and-soil nationalists, right-wing Christians, fanatical anti-Bolshevists, and authoritarians obsessed with social order were often anti-Semitic.
Populist nationalists present themselves as the only defenders of national identity and sovereignty against “external threats,” as Polish Premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski put it.
After all, populist nationalists have joined (and since left) government coalitions in Austria, Italy, Holland, and Denmark.
By implication, this may allow a widening of what constitutes officially permitted history in China, and an acknowledgement that the country’s turbulent twentieth century was shaped by a variety of actors – Communists, Nationalists, liberals, democrats, and all manner of artists, thinkers, and writers.
Both began their careers as Malay nationalists who sought to promote the rights of the Malay majority after the British left.
Without a renewed vision of Europe and an effective approach to dealing with crises, the continent’s new (and old) nationalists will continue to gain in strength and jeopardize the entire project of peaceful integration on the basis of the rule of law.
Nationalists can be divided into two main groups: those who genuinely believe that independence provides an exit from a blocked political system, and those who use the threat of it to force concessions from the political establishment.
Thus, nationalists can look either to Europe to protect them against their own states or to their states to protect them against the European empire.
None of this fazes the Scottish nationalists.
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