nationalism

There are deep reasons that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics.

The United States caused many of the planet’s problems and can still unmake them—but only if its politicians face up to the challenge.

Chinese students marched into Tiananmen Square 100 years ago in a movement that is still shaping attitudes in the country today.

The president’s coalition partners aren’t pulling him to the right. They’re doing his bidding.

The real winner of Turkey’s local elections is the ultranationalist MHP party.

Ukraine’s president is making a desperate gambit to win re-election—and to remain politically relevant if he loses.

Thierry Baudet once called politicians brain-dead. Now his upstart white nationalist movement has eclipsed Geert Wilders and won more Senate seats than the prime minister’s party.

If you want to stop terrorists like New Zealand’s mosque shooter, the first step is to try to understand what they’re saying.

The attack in New Zealand was inspired in part by the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but the real threat is lone wolves lurking in the far corners of the Internet.

The gunman who massacred Muslims was inspired by ideas that have circulated for decades on the French far-right.

Bosnia has a thriving media sector, but those who refuse to become mouthpieces for the government increasingly find themselves in exile or under police protection.

The country doesn’t need an openly pro-Russian political party. Its own government’s attempts to rewrite Polish history play directly into Vladimir Putin’s hands.

Spain has long resisted the rise of the far-right, because Basque and Catalan separatism animated nationalist passions—but the rise of Vox in Andalusia shows that the country is not immune from xenophobic politics.

When the world’s newest country broke away from Khartoum, it discarded Sudan’s main official language, too. But casting aside the oppressor’s tongue did not heal the country’s divisions.

It’s entirely fitting that Poland is celebrating its independence with a far-right nationalist parade.

The Caucasus is a complex ethnic and religious patchwork, and only a shared identity can help Georgians push back against Putin.

Nationalism is back, but nobody seems to know what it means. A forgotten essay marking its 40th anniversary can help.

It’s still possible to prevent the West from collapsing into permanent culture war—but only if it takes a totally new approach to nationalism.

Will the return of the European far-right be the undoing of the West?