{"id":78460,"date":"2015-11-02T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78460"},"modified":"2015-11-02T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:43:13","slug":"what-is-nationalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78460","title":{"rendered":"What Is Nationalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Mearsheimer says: &#8220;What is Zionism? It is Jewish nationalism. It is Jews in Europe moving to Palestine and getting a state of their own. Palestinians are interested in getting a state of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a world where nationalism is the most powerful ideology, the state is not going away&#8230; What you see today is a planet populated by states&#8230; The evolution of the political order since 1500 has been about the rise of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about states coming together? It&#8217;s not going to happen. Nationalism is a particularistic ideology. It privileges one&#8217;s own group. There&#8217;s little interest in a marriage with the other. In most cases, there&#8217;s an interest in divorce. Look at the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union. We are going to live in an anarchic world dominated by states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNbePdkeXAA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why would the US facilitate the rise of China? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a number of liberal friends who want to get China hooked on global capitalism and help China get richer and richer&#8230; From a realist perspective, this horrifies me&#8230; Why would I help facilitate the creation of a very powerful state, a state capable of becoming much more powerful than the United States when I can&#8217;t be sure what its intentions will be? There&#8217;s no way anyone can assure me that China will have benevolent intentions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we had to rerun history, it was 1919, what do you do with Germany? Most of my liberal friends would say we should not impose a Carthaginian peace. We should treat the Germans more nicely. My view is that you should break Germany up into eight pieces because you can&#8217;t be sure what its intentions will be. My liberal friends say that if you treat Germany nicely, Hitler wouldn&#8217;t come to power. Well, you didn&#8217;t need Hitler to start WWI. That I would allow Germany after WWI to become powerful again, it&#8217;s not the way I operate. I think it is important to make sure that you are more powerful than all of your neighbors because you can&#8217;t be sure of their intentions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though realists accept that war is politics by other means, realists are very reluctant to use military force. They are much more reluctant than liberals and neo-conservatives. Virtually all realists in the US opposed the Iraq War [of 2003]. Almost every important realist in the US opposed the Vietnam War before it happened (Kenneth Waltz, Hans Morgenthau, Walter Lipman, George Kennan, etc).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If realists ran foreign policy, we would have a more peaceful world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Mearsheimer says: &#8220;What is Zionism? It is Jewish nationalism. It is Jews in Europe moving to Palestine and getting a state of their own. Palestinians are interested in getting a state of their own.&#8221; &#8220;In a world where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4708,13633,29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-germany","category-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78467,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78460\/revisions\/78467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}