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...Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., who was senior tutor of Quincy House until he became an associate professor of politics at Princeton last month, has edited the first anthology of recent nationalist theory in The Ideologies of the Developing Nations. About one-quarter of his 26 selections were assigned last spring in Reinhold Neibuhr's Government 110, for which Sigmund was the course assistant...
...long introduction Sigmund tries to unify most of this conglomeration as the "ideology of modernizing nationalism." The paramount goal of this ideology, he notes, is national independence followed by rapid economic development. However, Sigmund lists three other goals which are less clearly part of this ideology: (1) "the creation of a nation-state governed by a regime based on a populist identification of leader, party, and people," (2) regional federation, and (3) nonalignment in international affairs. Indeed, Sigmund's anthology itself indicates how wide are the differences in the meanings that various nationalists give to these phrases...
...However, Sigmund rightly points out the contradictions in the way the word "socialist" is used by the nationalists. By attaching it to everything from the tepid land reform of Bourguiba in Tunisia to the social revolution of Castro they have turned it into a rather empty epithet...
...political theory some of the selections are lightweight, but all have the virtue of timeliness. Although several of Sigmund's short biographical sketches are obsolete only five months after they were written, the selections themselves continue to add significance to news from the third world
...smallish, dark-skinned man with gentle eyes and a fringelike beard, he led his Riff tribesmen in the last romantic war of this century. In the U.S., the vision of Krim's snow-white turban, flowing djella-bah and spirited Arabian steed was put to music by Sigmund Romberg in Broadway's The Desert Song. In North Africa, his tenacious struggle against the armies of France and Spain sent a throb of nationalism through the Arab world...