Friday, 3 January 2014

Is Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe either a Nationalist or Imperialist ? ............

Japan's pacifist constitution may be revised: Abe
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In   the   end  of   2011  and   early   2012  ,  the  Obama  Admistration  announced   that  it   would  be   intensifying  the  US  ROLE    in   the   Asia-Pacific   region  , which  will   include  the   East  Asia  ,  South-East  Asia  ,      Australia   and   Costal  Area  of  South   Asia   .

As   Part   of  its   Proclaimed  "  Strategic  Turn "  : 
      _ New  troop  deployments  to   Australia  ,
      _  New  Naval  deployments  to   Singapore  ,  and   Military   cooperation  with    the   Philippines  .  
      _  A   nine   nations  Tran-Pacific  Strategic   Economic    Partnership    (  TPP ). 
The   nine   nations   are   Australia  , Brunei  ,  Chile  ,  Malasia  ,  Newzealand  ,Peru  ,
Singapore  ,  the   United  States  and   Vietnam  .

      _  Canada  ,  Mexico   and   Japan  have   publicly   announced   their   interest   joining  the   TPP   talks  .

 Would     The   purpose   of  the   pivot   or   rebalancing   toward   the   Asia-Pacific region    be   depended  on   the   support    of   Abe's   Policy   ?


The   Nationalism  and   Imperialism   .
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Nationalism is the opposite of imperialism. Imperialism tries to make big nations that have many ethnic groups. In imperialist states, some groups are usually more powerful and are seen as better than others. Nationalists think that such hierarchy is bad. They say that in nations with one ethnic group, everyone has the same value and power. Sometimes nationalism is used to support imperialism, but that is against the original idea of nationalism. Such using of political ideas against their original purpose is quite usual in politics and happens with many other ideas too.
Nationalism had important role in ending the colonial rule. Nationalism spread to colonies and made their people to desire independence. Nationalism also made the people in metropolitan states (countries that colonized others) to accept more the desire of other people to rule themselves. However nationalists think that the end of colonialization of Africa was not done well. They think that there would not be so many conflicts in Africa if African nations had built in a nationalist way (so that every ethnic group is its own nation). After the imperialists left their African colonies, the new nations were built with borders that were not the same as the ethnic borders. New nations became nations with many ethnic groups, which do not want to or cannot live peacefully in the same society with the others.
            

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