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...endless can of nationalistic worms, with students using flags to declare allegiance to every putative “nation” under the sun. But this supposed catastrophe would, in fact, be a model of what the KSG should aim for at all times. The questions involved, those of nationhood in places like Tibet and East Timor, are some of the most pressing in international politics today. If KSG won’t engage them, who will...
...state into a self-help state. The war on terrorism and the SARS epidemic helped bring our multicultural society together. We found courage. Now there is more emphasis on emotional intelligence and creativity. The concepts of entrepreneurship, meritocracy and pragmatism are changing society. As Singapore celebrates 38 years of nationhood, we are moving beyond youthful exuberance to young adulthood. Pattamuckil John Johney Singapore...
...white farmers in Zimbabwe who now demand a peaceful and orderly land reform were content to do nothing through much of the first two decades of Zimbabwe’s nationhood. And Mugabe himself was not particularly concerned with land reform until it became politically expedient. But just because land reform was politically motivated does not mean that Western governments can take the high ground in their condemnation of Mugabe. For all the nations that criticize Mugabe, none has advanced a feasible and timely plan for reform. Britain, in particular, failed by not providing Zimbabwe with the money needed...
...course, the old ISI helped create that extremist danger. Since nationhood in 1947, Pakistan has tried through war and guile to pry the remainder of Kashmir, a former princely state with a Muslim majority, away from India. Borrowing a page from the cia's proxy war?backing local mujahedin against the occupying Soviets in Afghanistan?the ISI began in 1989 to encourage Islamic militant outfits inside Pakistan to cross over the mountains and snipe at Indian troops in Kashmir. As a combat tactic, it was brilliant: on any given day, more than 300,000 Indian troops are busy chasing...
...largest of all." Thus TIME described Mohandas Gandhi, in prison for mobilizing Indians against the British raj. A believer in "passive resistance" who had a steely will, a monklike ascetic who was a London-trained lawyer and a sophisticated politician, Gandhi gave Indians a proud identity and sense of nationhood. Many venerated him as a mahatma (great soul). His protests in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant India independence and Gandhi would achieve worldwide status as a moral icon. His example lives on in nonviolent activists of our day such as Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela...