Nationalism

Danish Siddiqui’s death should have been a moment of national unity. The prime minister made it the opposite.

Pedro Sánchez’s pardons represent a balanced response to a divisive issue—but both sides have denounced him.

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy is displacing Matteo Salvini’s League and making a play for power in Italy.

A new novel offers a family history of Israel’s former prime minister—and insight into the dangers of any form of nationalism.

Even after Trump has left office, ultranationalist views are still dominating his party.

In the city at the epicenter of recent clashes, relocated settlers from Gaza have brought Jewish supremacism to the heart of what was once a Palestinian city.

Islamophobic policies harm not just Muslims, but the poor and marginalized.

Escalating pro-independence movements by Anglophone Cameroonians and Biafrans are igniting ethnic tensions and could threaten regional stability.

Abiy Ahmed depends on the support of ethnic Amhara leaders and militias whose goal is to reconquer what they consider lost territories—from Tigray to Sudan.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.

The unquestioned assumption that some groups are more “patriotic” leads to dangerous security risks.

The 1994 Ethiopian Constitution celebrated self-determination, but it laid the groundwork for today’s violence. Devolution could offer a way out.

The World Health Organization’s chief argues that hoarding vaccines isn’t just immoral—it’s medically self-defeating.

The fuzzy goodwill between Biden and America’s Asian allies will soon be tested by China’s growing power.

The current conflict is the latest battle in a long-running war over the country’s identity as a unitary or federal state. The United States can restore its credibility as an honest broker by helping resolve it.

Western and regional powers are more divided than they were during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, but they can still exert influence to prevent the fragmentation of Ethiopia’s federal system.

Missing in the current U.S. debate on China is the question of Asian nationalism and how the United States could profitably align with it.

China’s rise has pushed Silicon Valley away from the values it once claimed to hold.

Even as they struggle to control the pandemic, governments should move quickly to reopen borders instead of giving in to xenophobia, nationalism, and illusions of autarky.

Nationalist media and pandemic fears have caused hatred to go viral.