Nation-state attacks: the start of a new Cold War?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Mansfield-Devine
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nation State

The New Knight: The French Far Right’s View of the Middle Ages

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Stéphane François
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Modern Nation State ◽  
The Middle Ages

The far right has always taken an interest in the Middle Ages. For the French revolutionary far right, which shares an ideological matrix influenced by Julius Evola, fascination with the Middle Ages revolves around the image of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire as a political model for Europe opposed to the modern nation-state. The romantic image of the medieval knight also offers a watered-down way to celebrate and legitimize violence without having to allude to a taboo National Socialism. This obsession with the Middle Ages contrasts with the reality that these revolutionary far-right movements were rather pro-Arab during the Cold War decades. This shift reveals the transformation of their thinking and the new dominance of the Identitarian notion of ethnic withdrawal, with the knight as the symbol of a pure racial warrior defending his society against Muslim invasion.

The Politics of Mnemonics: History in the Debate over Taiwan's Status

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Steve Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractWith the retreat of the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) from mainland China to Taiwan in the late 1940s, the island seemed destined to be part of another nation divided by the Cold War—superficially similar to Germany and Korea. The Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland, while the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) moved its government, the Republic of China (ROC), to Taiwan. It followed, then, that reconciliation between the two would unite both sides of the Taiwan Strait under one nation-state. Much has changed since those early years of the Cold War, however. The Communists have embraced capitalism, most nations have established relations with the PRC while cutting ties to the ROC, and it is difficult to discern whether the Nationalists are devoted to a Chinese or to a Taiwanese nation.1 Despite

scholarly journals A Consciousness of Streets: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Partition

2016 ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
Modern Nation State

This largely speculative review historicises the current era of ‘Springs’ through the lens of partition. I offer a critique of political modernity and the modern nation-state through analysis of the turn to border politics in colonial conquests, decolonisation efforts, Cold War politics and other instances of international relations across the long twentieth century. The pervasiveness of such plans across late modernity marks the beginning of the end of the nation as a single, reifiable, imaginable structure. With Ireland as exemplar, I posit national dividedness —a generally underestimated paradigm shaping our time— as spurring a decline in state authority and a new, radical “consciousness of streets.” Together with other defining political structures, it participates in transforming the postmodern map of nation into a conflicted network, an imagined community as metropolitan circuit. I take recourse to theories of partition and nation and work by geographers, historians and postcolonial theorists including Joseph Cleary, Benedict Anderson, Monica Duffy Toft, Étienne Balibar and Michel Foucault.

Afterword Cold War Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Red Light District

Hong Kong was and is, as Prasenjit Duara points out in this volume, a place that escaped from the boundaries and constraints of the nation-state, one with the potential to trigger novel and perhaps hybrid institutional arrangements, tailored to its own circumstances, that might ultimately provide models for an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, one where the ways that states functioned were being adapted to meet changing demands. Neither a state nor even perhaps a genuine colony, it had the scope to devise creative solutions to whatever problems it might encounter. Cold War developments sometimes proved significant in this respect. Peter Hamilton argues that when, during the mid-1960s, Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon developed into a rather seedy red light district full of rowdy bars and down-market businesses catering to visiting US military personnel on R & R from the Vietnam War, this prompted both Hong Kong elites and ordinary people into organizing to protest against this transformation. In so doing, Hamilton believes, they brought into being a new kind of community activism, one that set political precedents for the future of Hong Kong....

Tribe, Nation, World: Self-Identification in the Evolving International System

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 151-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Franck
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
International System ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the Cold War and the growth of economic, political, and informational globalization are challenging our traditional definitions of self. Franck displays the complexity and growing subjectiveness of identity by providing a detailed lexicon of identity, including definitions of nation, state, tribe, and ethnicity. He argues that recent appeals to nationalism based on a common sociocultural, geographic, and linguistic heritage should be seen as reactions against the broadening communities of trade, information, and power. However, Franck asserts that anomie and xenophobia can be countered by giving substatal ethnicities, minorities, and political parties a voice and a vote in international forums.

scholarly journals Faraway Siblings, So Close: Ephemeral conviviality across the Wakhan divide

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
TILL MOSTOWLANSKY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
State Boundaries

AbstractIn this article, I set out to explore the possibility of a shared life between two places in the highlands of Pakistan and Tajikistan—a region dissected by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan corridor, by present-day nation-state boundaries, by historical divisions between Central and South Asia, and by a former Cold War frontier. Moving away from a take on conviviality as specifically tied to urban spaces and face-to-face encounters, I attempt to trace the processes that determine the coming and going of shared modes of being. In doing so, I first situate the two places—Karimabad and Khorog—in their respective post-Cold War borderlands and point to their historically ambivalent status as ‘marginal’ places at the frontier, culturally diverse ‘hubs’, and sites of globalization. Then I analyse the historical build-up—material and ideological—that led to the establishment of specific forms of connection and disconnection between the two places. In the last part of the article, I discuss how people in and from Karimabad and Khorog seek out opportunities to attain shared instances of common sociality, which often remain ephemeral and subject to regimes of power. Finally, I argue that the cases of these two ‘marginal hubs’ highlight the importance of looking beyond the conventional ‘imperial centre’ when debating the dynamics that lead people to desire, create, and abandon ties across difference.

Winds of History or the Acts of Men? The Unification of Germany

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Deighton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
German Question ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Western Values ◽  
The Cold War

For the first two years after the Berlin Wall came down and, as Jacques Delors put it, while the speed of history accelerated, most scholars confined themselves to journalism. Some books that did appear were rapidly overtaken by the heady pace of history, and the books under review here do not entirely escape being dated by the relentless progress of events on the European continent. Indeed, it can hardly be said that the dust has settled on German unification and the seismic events that we call the end of the Cold War. Both in the East (predictably) and in the West, unscrambling the elaborate territorial, strategic and ideological Cold War structures is bringing a re-examination of the nation state and its democratic practices; international governmental organisations; ‘Western’ values; and security issues. At one level, debate has been raging among some historians between two unsatisfactory notions: the ‘end of history’, and ‘real’ history being on the move again. At another level the German question has been returning unsteadily into focus, as historians start to pick at issues of national identity, nationalism and the nation-state. Other analysts have been trying to fit the European structures and assumptions we inherit from the Cold War years into a post-Cold War security and economic architecture. The close relationship between these strands of European history is obvious.

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