To what extent is Nationalism inherently aggressive and expansionist?
To what extent is Nationalism inherently aggressive and expansionist?
Intro:
It is difficult to define Nationalism as either inherently destructive or expansionist. It depends on the type of Nationalism and the circumstances in which is arises and how people use or abuse it as an ideology. Heywood defines four main breeds of Nationalism; Liberal Nationalism, Conservative Nationalism, Expansionist Nationalism, Anti and post colonial Nationalism.
One of the types of nationalism which is more likely to be inherently destructive and expansionist is Expansionist Nationalism, as its name suggests, is essentially destructive and expansionist. It advocates a form of national chauvinism where patriotism and national pride reaches a higher level. The nation believes that imperialism is both necessary and desirable because it spreads the benefits of their own civilisation on the lesser civilised countries. Expansionist Nationalism is a radical form of nationalism that incorporates autonomous, patriotic sentiments with a belief in expansionism. Expansionist nationalism is seen by many people as the only type of nationalism because it causes so much disaster and trauma in the mid 20th century. It emerged until the 19th century where it became associated with the far right e.g. fascists, Nazism type of nationalism. This type of nationalism is known as the hyper and ultra type of nationalism. This type of nationalism is also an intense militant and emotional ever historical type of nationalism. It rejects the liberal belief of equal nation instead xenophobic with hatred and fear of foreigners. To begin with, this type of nationalism believes that nations are locked to an eternal Darwinist struggle in which the fittest nations will survive the ultimate form of struggle in war. A key example of this is Hitler expressing this idea by the expression of 'Hammer and anvil nations' where Germany is the hammer and Poland and the British Empire is the anvil. This means that some nations
Intro:
It is difficult to define Nationalism as either inherently destructive or expansionist. It depends on the type of Nationalism and the circumstances in which is arises and how people use or abuse it as an ideology. Heywood defines four main breeds of Nationalism; Liberal Nationalism, Conservative Nationalism, Expansionist Nationalism, Anti and post colonial Nationalism.
One of the types of nationalism which is more likely to be inherently destructive and expansionist is Expansionist Nationalism, as its name suggests, is essentially destructive and expansionist. It advocates a form of national chauvinism where patriotism and national pride reaches a higher level. The nation believes that imperialism is both necessary and desirable because it spreads the benefits of their own civilisation on the lesser civilised countries. Expansionist Nationalism is a radical form of nationalism that incorporates autonomous, patriotic sentiments with a belief in expansionism. Expansionist nationalism is seen by many people as the only type of nationalism because it causes so much disaster and trauma in the mid 20th century. It emerged until the 19th century where it became associated with the far right e.g. fascists, Nazism type of nationalism. This type of nationalism is known as the hyper and ultra type of nationalism. This type of nationalism is also an intense militant and emotional ever historical type of nationalism. It rejects the liberal belief of equal nation instead xenophobic with hatred and fear of foreigners. To begin with, this type of nationalism believes that nations are locked to an eternal Darwinist struggle in which the fittest nations will survive the ultimate form of struggle in war. A key example of this is Hitler expressing this idea by the expression of 'Hammer and anvil nations' where Germany is the hammer and Poland and the British Empire is the anvil. This means that some nations