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Topic: New Nationalism


In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

  
 New Nationalism
The February 1961, riot in the gallery of the United Nations in protest against the foul and cowardly murder of Patrice Lumumba introduced the new Afro-American Nationalism.
The demonstrations in the united nations gallery interpreted the murder of Lumumba as the international lynching of a fl man on the altar of colonialism and white supremacy.
In identifying their fight for national liberation with the new resurgence of Pan-Africanism (actually an Afro-American creation) the Afro-American not only as an instrument for the unification of Africa, but as a broader means for the unification of all people of African descent the world over.
www.africawithin.com /clarke/new_afro.htm   (3806 words)

  
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The New Nationalism was not a shallow piece of rhetoric thrown together for the campaign; it represented a carefully thought-through analysis of American society and the role that government ought to play.
Thus the foundations of independent national states were laid in Serbia in 1815, in Greece in 1830, in Romania in 1856, in Bulgaria in 1878, and in Albania in 1913.
Nationalism was therefore a revolutionary and democratic creed reflecting the idea that ‘subjects of the crown’ should become ‘citizens of France’.
lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/nationalism--new-nationalism.html   (762 words)

  
 New Nationialism - Roosevelt Speeches - 1912
I believe in national friendships and heartiest good-will to all nations; but national friendships, like those between men, must be founded on respect as well as on liking, on forbearance as well as upon trust.
We are face to face with new conceptions of the relations of property to human welfare, chiefly because certain advocates of the rights of property as against the rights of men have been pushing their claims too far.
It is a misfortune when the national legislature fails to do its duty in providing a national remedy, so that the only national activity is the purely negative activity of the judiciary in forbidding the State to exercise power in the premises.
www.theodore-roosevelt.com /trnationalismspeech.html   (5661 words)

  
 Nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nationalism typically makes certain political claims based upon this belief: above all, the claim that the nation is the only fully legitimate basis for a state, that each nation is entitled to its own state, and that the borders of the state should be congruent with the borders of the nation.
Hechter attributes nationalism in the "Celtic fringe" of Britain and Ireland to the reinforcing divisions of culture and the division of labour.
Nationalism may be used as a derogatory label for political parties, or they may use it themselves as a euphemism for xenophobia, even if their policies are no more specifically nationalist, than other political parties in the same country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nationalism   (7667 words)

  
 ABC News: In Japan, new nationalism takes hold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But as a new generation seeks to shed the remnants of what is commonly called the "American occupation" legacy, a range of speech and ideas previously frowned on or ignored, is showing up sharply in mainstream culture.
The new nationalist sentiment is seen in popular magazines that use provocative language to advocate a more militaristic Japan, question the legitimacy of the Tokyo war-crimes trials, and often cast racist aspersions on China and Korea.
The new tone is coupled with the rise of China, fears associated with North Korea, perennial questions of identity  and comes as America, Japan's main ally and security guarantor, is bogged down in Iraq.
abcnews.go.com /International/CSM/story?id=2755351   (1533 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past): Books: Ernest Gellner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Nation and Its Fragments by Partha Chatterjee
Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.
Nationalism is important to study because during the 20th century, it has been one of the most despicable forces to ever hit this world and as such, needs to be understood.
www.amazon.com /Nations-Nationalism-New-Perspectives-Past/dp/0801492637   (3222 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The New Nationalism
In some ways, this new nationalism is a kind of geopolitical fundamentalism -- in which people cleave to old identities as a way of coping with the new stresses of globalization.
After prodding other European nations for a generation toward its view of a unified Europe -- and after former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing took the lead in writing a new European constitution -- the French public is leaning against ratification of that constitution in a national referendum next month.
The gaudy parade of nationalism continues: The Iranians want their own made-in-Iran bomb, and this nuclear nationalism is as strong among the educated Iranian technocrats who are supposedly our friends as among the mullahs.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A2951-2005Apr19?language=printer   (763 words)

  
 American Nationalism | The New America Foundation
The first is an optimistic and universalist civic nationalism based on the values of democracy, law, and individualism.
Although a foundation of America's global leadership, this nationalism is flawed by a tendency to messianism and the self-defeating pursuit of absolutist goals on the international stage.
The other strain in American nationalism, by contrast, is pessimistic, embittered, and chauvinist, rooted in citizens who feel they have suffered a series of historical defeats at the hands of modern economic, social, and cultural change.
www.newamerica.net /events/2004/american_nationalism   (180 words)

  
 America’s New Nationalism
An erudite analysis of the historical and cultural strands that have forged contemporary American nationalism, it is the antidote to a view now popular among Bush administration critics: there is little wrong with American foreign policy that reducing the influence of several dozen Beltway neoconservatives would not cure.
When a nation’s self-definition is grounded in the idea of democracy, potential enemies spring up everywhere—any country that does not share the creed is a candidate.
Lieven views American nationalism as drawing sustenance from a pool of reactionary racial and ethnic resentments, and here his critique is conventionally liberal (and somewhat overstated).
www.amconmag.com /2005_03_14/article3.html   (1440 words)

  
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It was during this speaking tour that Roosevelt began to articulate his own version of progressive reform, which he called the "New Nationalism," and which would be the basis for his campaign for the presidency.
He now proposed a New Nationalism of dynamic democracy that would recognize the inevitability of economic concentration; to counter the power of the giant corporations, Roosevelt proposed bringing them under complete federal control, so as to protect the interests of the laboring man and the consumer.
We need comprehensive workmen's compensation acts, both state and national laws to regulate child labor and work for women, and, especially, we need in our common schools not merely education in book learning, but also practical training for daily life and work.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/31.htm   (6083 words)

  
 New Nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Nationalism was Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election.
Accordingly, the New Nationalism supported child labor laws and a minimum wage laws for women.
This is in direct contrast with Woodrow Wilson's policy of The New Freedom, which promoted antitrust modification, tariff reduction, and banking and currency reform.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Nationalism   (198 words)

  
 1910 to 1940: New Nationalism
New constitution: Council of the Indies becomes advisory, Volksraad gets limited legislative powers, Governor-General and bureaucracy are unaffected.
Supratman wrote "Indonesia Raya", which was adopted by the PNI in 1928 as the national anthem for the future Indonesia, and is still Indonesia's anthem today.
Mohammed Natsir, age 24, takes charge of new Persatuan Islam schools, writes that Islam must be the basis of the new Indonesia.
www.gimonca.com /sejarah/sejarah06.shtml   (3402 words)

  
 Adam's Blog - The New Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mark it on your calendars for 2008, the issue will be nationalism, the candidate is to be named later.
I was shocked by the hubris of people who violated our nation's laws demanding their rights.
It is the idea that we, as a sovereign nation can set laws that must be respected regarding entry into our country and that those who immigrate here should be prepared to become part of the American Culture.
www.adamsweb.us /blog/index.php/a/2006/03/30/the_new_nationalism   (732 words)

  
 China's New Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At a time when the direction of China's foreign and domestic policies have profound ramifications worldwide, Gries offers a rare, in-depth look at the nature of China's new nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations--two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the twenty-first century.
Deeply rooted in narratives about past "humiliations" at the hands of the West and impassioned notions of Chinese identity, popular nationalism is now undermining the Communist Party's monopoly on political discourse, threatening the regime's stability.
As readable as it is closely researched and reasoned, this timely book analyzes the impact that popular nationalism will have on twenty-first century China and the world.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9662.html   (633 words)

  
 A new nationalism on the rise | csmonitor.com
Kreitler has seen the national mood swing from cynical to idealist and back again several times.
Now, some cultural observers see an era of new nationalism – a shift that predates Sept 11.
The point is that after a revival of ethnic identity in the 1960s and '70s, many Americans have been turning to the notion of commonality.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0611/p02s02-ussc.html   (865 words)

  
 In Japan, new nationalism takes hold | csmonitor.com
The new tone is coupled with the rise of China, fears associated with North Korea, perennial questions of identity - and comes as America, Japan's main ally and security guarantor, is bogged down in Iraq.
Japan reads into 'Letters From Iwo Jima' 12/22/06
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www.csmonitor.com /2006/1228/p01s03-woap.html   (1653 words)

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