Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, and the first thing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee plans to do is carry out that canceled nuclear test. The B.J.P. has made nuclear assertion a cardinal plank of its India-first platform, and Vajpayee gives the go-ahead, but scientists tell him it will take a month. Before they can carry through, his government falls, after just 13 days in office...
...were not a political gimmick," the rose petals fluttering down on Vajpayee as Indians celebrated their nuclear machismo explained a great deal about his motives. It makes Indians feel good to be a nuclear power. "We have to prove that we are not eunuchs," said Bombay's leading Hindu nationalist, Bal Thackeray. A poll of 1,000 Indians in several cities showed that 91% approved of the tests and 82% favored the deployment of nuclear weapons. To perennially insecure India, it seems as if forcing its way into the nuclear club confirms its great-nation status and makes the rest...
...domination by Belgrade, alienated by linguistic, cultural and religious differences, the Kosovars, as the Kosovo Albanians are called, have long pushed peacefully for freedom from Serb-run Yugoslavia. Now they insist on nothing less than full independence, but Serbia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, who set the bloody standard for nationalist retaliation when Croatia and Bosnia tried to break away, is just as determined to block that. As the hatred builds and hard men on both sides pick up their guns, the U.S. and Europe's key powers are once again unable to unite behind any plan for strong action...
...column of May 4, 1998, Aamir Abdul Rehman correctly concludes that framing the Israeli-Palestinian struggle in nationalist terms will produce no results. Both the assumptions and goals of any two nationalist philosophies inherently contradict each other; hence any discussion of international relations must be framed in an internationally accepted framework, possibly a moral...
...superficial sense of the issues. It becomes all too easy to frame the question as one of "competing nationalisms"--a framework that neglects key issues and invites us to take a hands-off perspective devoid of any moral or ethical responsibility. To see the matter in a purely nationalist framework--Israelis and Palestinians engaged in territorial struggle solely for the sake of their nations--is to overlook normative judgments and a sense of right and wrong. Looking at the controversy from international legal and human rights perspectives sheds a fuller light on the real questions of Palestine...