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This article presents information on the so-called euro-nationalism of the European Union (EU) member nations. The Euro-nationalists proudly say that the EU is the embodiment of anti-nationalism, after overcoming the legacy of the lesser European nationalisms that were allegedly responsible for the two world wars. The World War II provides an even more decisive exposure of the case made by Euro-nationalists. Finally, the formation of the EU is the consequence of the present peace in Western Europe. The Euro-nationalists, who used to hide their superpower ambitions, are now admitting them frankly.

The article focuses on the struggle facing Cuba in 1981 over achieving independence and national identity. It features José Eulalio Negrin, an advocate of American-Cuban relations, and his death on November 25, 1979. It offers information on the relation of the weapons market to drug trade in southern Florida. It provides information on the allegations concerning the death of a Cuban attaché in New York. It also presents information on the involvement of the Cuban government in drug trade.

The article focuses on the nationalist and religious views of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has said that Israel should be eliminated from the map, and has claimed that no enemy of Iran can stand in its way. Human rights violations in Iran are discussed, including the execution of political prisoners overseen by Interior Minister Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi.

The article calls for the U.S. to carefully distinguish between Russian allies and enemies if the U.S. wants to improve relations between the countries. It criticizes the tendency of some Western analysts to confuse friendly and hostile Russians. It describes the attitudes of several groups of Russians toward the U.S. which reflected their voting patterns. It also assesses the position of Russian nationalist Alexsandr Lebed on the West. It also identifies reasons for the misguided perceptions of Russia by the West.

The article presents an exchange of political dialogues between conservative liberal Lord Acton and radical John Stuart Mill regarding the issue of freedom and nationalism. In Mill's opinion, where there was a sentiment of nationality in a certain people, there was a case for uniting them under the same government. Acton, however, does not agree with Mill's views of freedom. For him, the freedom of every German-speaking person could only be possible in the freedom of a united independent German state.

Focuses on Western Liberals' determination to press over its war on nationalism. Views of Liberal evolutionists that peace can be secured only by stripping all peoples of the prerogatives and emotions of national sovereignty; Call of the Soviet Union that the U.S. must abandon its capitalistic imperialism; Urge of the U.S. that the Soviet Union must abandon the notion of world dominion; Need for Western Liberals to restrain their anti-nationalist fervor.

Offers a look at the political and economic conditions in Bolivia as of October 6, 1956. Move of the government of Bolivia to implement a nationalist economic policy; Description of the Movimiento Nacional Revolutionario (MNR) government of Bolivia; Impact of the nationalist economic policy on the living standard of the people; Criticism on the U.S. State Department for its support of the MNR government of Bolivia.

This article examines the possibility that politician Pat Buchanan will contest presidential elections in the year 2000. Buchanan is not able to declare his candidacy yet. His candidacy is more plausible because the Republican Party doesn't have any other candidate. Unlike 1996, the party has no front-runner. Besides, Buchanan favors certain issues such as protectionism, an interventionist foreign policy and an "America First" nationalism. Buchanan is supporting protectionism as he feels that free trade is the economic road to post-nationalism.

This article deals with U.S. President Bill Clinton's policy toward China which includes establishing a strategic partnership in 1997. While the Clinton administration dreams of strategic partnership, Congress is looking for Chinese concessions on several issues and is increasingly concerned about Chinese threats. In a June 1997 speech, U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger suggested that China would move either toward inward-looking nationalism or toward outward-looking integration. The policy challenge posed by China is that it is capable of being cooperative and assertive simultaneously This policy issue requires the president to educate the American public, explaining why there is no silver bullet to transform China and how to accept diplomatic results that are only half satisfactory.

The article discusses the need for the U.S. Republican party to integrate Pat Buchanan's nationalist supporters and his philosophy of nationalist conservatism in order to strengthen the party. The economic nationalism of Buchanan is just one component of a philosophy, a nationalist conservatism, which is taking place as a component of the Republican coalition. Pro-abortion Republicans have come to accept the need for restrictions on the integration of religious conservatives into the party. Republicans agree that public institutions have to tolerate religious expression than the Supreme Courts would tolerate. In relation to education, they created a mechanism to harmonize the need for standards with the desire of parents for education that respects religious faith.

Discusses the conflict between the Soviet Union imperialism and Czechoslovak nationalism with reference to the meeting of the Czechoslovak and Soviet Communist parties to resolve the dispute. Speculation regarding submission of Czechoslovakia President Alexander Dubcek to Russian demands that he restore press censorship, halt the purge of Stalinists in party and government and re-establish tight party control of the state; Belief of Dubcek that the Communist party can cease to be the instrument of a ruling political class and graduate into a party that genuinely represents the people; Plans of Russia to use economic pressure and political subversion on Czechoslovak; Expectations regarding direct military intervention of Russia in Czechoslovakia.

Focuses on the changes that have taken place in Communist China. Opinion of China experts that Chinese Communists were merely agrarian reformers; Abandonment of Nationalist China that would create no crisis of conscience among self-described realists; Discussion on the recent hearings by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Assesses the role of African nationalism in the failure of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Background on the African territories included in the federation; Justifications for the establishment of the federation; Demand for independence for Southern Rhodesia.

Discusses reasoning put forward by Alex Quaison-Sackey, delegate from Ghana, during the United Nation's (UN) Security Council debate on the Portuguese provinces in Africa. Remarks of Alex Quaison-Sackey, that certain African countries, behind the nationalists, fighting for their independence pose a threat to international peace and security; Insistence of Quaison-Sackey to remove Portugal's continued presence in Angola and Mozambique, by compelling Portugal to arrange at once the transfer of power to Africans; Actions of Jomo Kenyatta's all-African government in Kenya, associated with Ghana in the UN, against Portugal.

The article focuses on the preparation by the leadership of IRA/Sinn Fein of a second ceasefire in 1997 in time for a maximum benefit for the republican Peace Strategy. Such Peace Strategy has two significant aims. First is to comprehend, subvert, and eventually destroy moderate constitutional nationalism and be able to replace it with militant republicanism. Second, to oblige unionists into violent confrontation with the British government as a prelude to persuading London, England and Dublin, Ireland to impose an anti-unionist solution.

The article reflects on the issue of the control of the Panama Canal and the political leadership of Panama chief of government General Omar Torrijos as of 1976. It presents a background of the emergence of Torrijos as the military leader of the country. It describes the foreign relations between Panama and the U.S. under the administration of Torrijos. It argues that the longing for the return of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control is a matter of pride among Panamanians. It also deals with the manner in which the U.S. control of the canal restricts economic development in Panama.

Reports on the diplomatic conflict between Yugoslavia and Austria. Propaganda launched by Yugoslavia against Austria's alleged suppression of Slovenes and its support of neo-Nazism, militarism, revanchism, imperialism, fascism, and monopoly capitalism; Protest of Yugoslavia on the claimed liberation of the state by the Soviet military men; Information that Yugoslavia has been putting pressure on the various manifestations of nationalism as well as on all critics of communism.

Presents information regarding the contributory factors leading to disintegration in the Communist world. The challenge to Soviet leadership which originated in Yugoslavia twenty years ago; Information regarding vigorous ethnic nationalism of East-Central and Eastern Europe; Observation that there is genuine intellectual and artistic restlessness in the communist world.

Reports that Jamil M. Baroody, Saudi Arabian delegate to the United Nations (UN), urged in the Budgetary Committee that the members of the UN begin to think about moving the UN to some city and country, preferably in Europe. Opinion that it should be set up in a neutral zone, befitting its own putative non-nationalism; Problems faced by the delegates and their families in living in the world's most complicated city; Possible impact of the removal of the entire UN apparatus to some foreign shore on the internal security of the U.S.

Argues against the efforts by historians to rewrite history due to the influence of nationalism and patriotic sentiments that are undesirable. Involvement of the United Nations in the initiative; Events in world history that can not be revised by purging them of nationalistic fervor and prejudice.

Presents information regarding the political developments taking place in Iraq. Recognition forwarded by major countries of the world to the new regime in Iraq under President Abdel Salam Aref; Political background of former Iraqi chief and strongman General Abdul Karim el-Kassem; Political orientation of the nationalists who helped overthrow the government of Kassem.