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• Originally published 01/12/2018

  The Death Cult of Trumpism

  Greg Grandin

  Through racism and nationalism, Trump leverages tribal resentment against an emerging manifest common destiny.

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• Originally published 10/20/2017

  Fake News and Fervent Nationalism Got a Senator Tarred as a Traitor During WWI

  The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime.

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• Originally published 09/01/2017

  World Citizenship Is More Popular Than You Might Think

  Lawrence Wittner

  Zealous nationalists have been garnering headlines, but they’re in the minority.

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• Originally published 05/17/2017

  Globalism Doesn’t Mean What Donald Trump Thinks It Means

  Or Rosenboim

  As conceived in the post-war period globalism was not the antithesis of nationalism.

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• Originally published 05/15/2017

  The Global Rightist Turn, Nationalism and Japan

  Karoline Postel-Vinay

  The hostile reaction to globalization isn’t confined to the West.

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• Originally published 04/13/2017

  The Alarming Worldwide Alliance of Parties on the Far Right

  Lawrence Wittner

  Their leaders are Trump and Putin.

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• Originally published 03/08/2017

  What Trump, Le Pen and Putin Are Selling

  Walter G. Moss

  It’s nostalgic nationalism and it’s dangerous.

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• Originally published 12/29/2016

  Angela Merkel and the history book that helped inform her worldview

  The book is by Jürgen Osterhammel, a professor at Konstanz University, who argues that the 19th century should be recast as the century marked by globalization, not nationalism.

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• Originally published 03/17/2015

  For God or Country: The Divergent Paths of Islamism and Arab Nationalism

  Tristan James Mabry

  In the 1950s, the Arab world was led by states that were nationalist, ambitious and secular; it was the collapse of Arab nationalism that opened the door to fundamentalist Islam.

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• Originally published 09/03/2014

  Liberal Nationalism Is Not Only Possible, It's Essential

  Ian Reifowitz

  Ian Reifowitz is the author of "Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity."

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• Originally published 02/11/2014

  S Korea and Japan clash over sea's name in Virginia textbooks

  An argument about what to call the sea between South Korea and Japan has spread to the United States.

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• Originally published 01/23/2014

  U.S. Should Speak Truth to Japan

  Gregg Andrew Brazinsky

  It’s time for the U.S. to get serious about reining in Japan.

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• Originally published 01/16/2014

  Japan's Resurgent Nationalism

  John Feffer

  Shinzo Abe is a right-wing nationalist who wants to revive Japan as a "normal" military power. He has been brusque in his rhetoric and his actions.

• Originally published 07/24/2013

  Jennifer Lind: The Limits on Nationalism in Japan

  Jennifer Lind, an associate professor of government at Dartmouth, is the author of “Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics.”...[O]n Aug. 15, the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the war, many officials [including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe] are likely to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the nation’s war dead and includes among them convicted war criminals.The way Mr. Abe observes those two anniversaries will be read, especially by China and South Korea, as a measure of his attitudes toward the past and his sensitivities toward Japan’s neighbors.An episode from this spring suggests that nationalism is the last thing Japanese voters want from their government. Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka, made comments justifying the use of comfort women by citing soldiers’ hardship. “If you want them to have a rest in such a situation, a system like the ‘comfort women’ is necessary,” he said. “Anyone can understand that.”...

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• Originally published 07/19/2013

  Japan's Prime Minister is a Far-Right Nationalist

  Tessa Morris-Suzuki

  Is it possible that the best way to win future wars is to avoid them altogether?  As simple as that question is, you will rarely hear it asked in the halls of power in Washington.