No surprises; it’s nationalism and not globalization that has created great nations over the years
Incidentally, the way Hitler galvanized a disparate Germany, which was humiliatingly defeated in the First World War, into a reckoning force vindicated the fact of how potent a force the war-cry to resurrect the lost pride of fatherland (or motherland) could be. Nazis became a spent force for good after the defeat of Germany in World War II, but ethnic nationalism continued. Oddly, that the Jewish State succeeded to an extent against all ‘odds’ and emerged as a pioneer in high end technologies is also proof of how nationalism drives the fanatic passion to not only survive, but consolidate and fortify. Had it not been for the ethnic pride and the quest to wipe the humiliation of the past, Japan and Germany wouldn’t have had such incredible resurrections (both economic and political) in just a few decades’ time to become the second and third largest global economies respectively, their decimation in the Second World War notwithstanding.
The advent of Cold War also brought with it a new kind of concept wherein the countries started getting associated with the economic ideology they believed in. In a broader sense, it was ideological nationalism. The world was broadly divided into a capitalist West and a communist East. Countries, in spite of ethnic and cultural differences, were brought together under the umbrella of singular economic ideologies in an attempt to dilute the concept of nationalism. Though this seemed to work in the communist geographies – for example, the slogan to unite workers across the world became more and more prominent in socialist countries that united to present almost a singular (Che) Gueveraish face – a similar thinking did not work in the West, where waves of globalization were sweeping across – for example again, if European football matches were a purveyor of the fervent passion in one’s nationality, then the failure in setting up of the ‘unified’ EU only stamped it further, proving the volcanic resistance in the so called capitalist Europe to forgetting one’s ‘nationality’, be it Turkey’s non-inclusion in the EU or UK’s ad nauseum pound fetish.
The advent of Cold War also brought with it a new kind of concept wherein the countries started getting associated with the economic ideology they believed in. In a broader sense, it was ideological nationalism. The world was broadly divided into a capitalist West and a communist East. Countries, in spite of ethnic and cultural differences, were brought together under the umbrella of singular economic ideologies in an attempt to dilute the concept of nationalism. Though this seemed to work in the communist geographies – for example, the slogan to unite workers across the world became more and more prominent in socialist countries that united to present almost a singular (Che) Gueveraish face – a similar thinking did not work in the West, where waves of globalization were sweeping across – for example again, if European football matches were a purveyor of the fervent passion in one’s nationality, then the failure in setting up of the ‘unified’ EU only stamped it further, proving the volcanic resistance in the so called capitalist Europe to forgetting one’s ‘nationality’, be it Turkey’s non-inclusion in the EU or UK’s ad nauseum pound fetish.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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