| The improvement of global nationalism interweaving and still echoing in the political, economical and cultural fields, has given a great impact to international communities, nation-states after the cold war, which therefore, serves as a good guider to study national issues and settle the relevant problems.The thesis has six chapters including an introduction and a postscript. The first part provides a brief introduction of the purpose, significance, research thoughts, approaches, achievements, and new ideas of studies on post-cold war international nationalism, thereby presenting a bird's view of the situation of post-cold war nationalist movements throughout the world as well as experiences and lessons China may adopt in settlement of her ethnic problems.The thesis deals mainly with the concepts of "nationality" and "nationalism" in the first chapter. "Nationality" contains not only political and cultural factors as well on the basis of such objective elements as region and economics. "Nationalism" means supreme loyalty and ardent love towards its own nation, formed by its members of nation community on the basis of nation senses.The second chapter mainly dwells on the features and characteristics of global nationalism. Citing the national separatism of the former Yugoslavia as an example, the chapter aims at the illustrating the point that spreading widely in the world after the cold war, national separatism has become the main manifestation of global nationalism in the political area. The chapter also provides a thorough analysis of pan-Turkism with the purpose of illustrating the situation of interwoven 'separations' and 'unifications' in political regards as the result of pan-nationalism gaining prominence in political nationalism after the cold war and how such situation has brought instability to the international community. In the context of economic globalization, global nationalism presents in the economic fields not only ultra-national and ultra-state communication and cooperation but also competition, confrontation and conflicts between nations and states. As cultural nationalism presents different characteristics and impact in countries of different levels of development, the "defensive" cultural nationalism and the "colonial" cultural nationalism have come into being. Compared with its former two nationalisms, the post-cold war global nationalism (the "third nationalism") exhibits new distinctive features of its own. The mainstream is national separatism in various fields including politics, economics, culture, etc., and it also presents the duality feature and thetendency toward globalization.The third chapter is mainly an analysis of the causes of the rise of the post-cold war global nationalism. It claims that the rise of global nationalism after the cold war is a result of the termination of the cold war mechanism and changes in the global power structure. In the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the rise of nationalism interacted with the end of the cold war. However, as the cold war situation disappeared, nationalism spread from the region to other countries around. The root cause the proliferation of nationalism lies in the unbalanced ethnic policies of countries involved. The socialist countries of the region treated ethnic contraction as class contradiction, and therefore adopted ethnocentrism and, ignoring the nature of religious development, tried to eliminate religions in order to adopt highly centralized political and economic policies. All these in combination heated ethnic conflicts and gave rise to nationalism. Ethnic differences are denied, and ethnic prejudice as well as ethnic assimilation policies are even adopted in some other countries. Economic globalization, on the one hand, restrains the development of nation-states, state sovereignties and nationalism, while on the other hand it also leads to more chances of confrontations and conflicts as the number of nation-states increases and i... |
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