The Influence of Nationalism and Localism
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Nationalism and localism can be seen to be intensifying, not only in response to the backwash effects of international and supranational integration. Why is this?
Integration both local and private requires the adoption of better systems that can help in maintaining a more reliable system for change and integration of better process that aid in promoting change based on the different integration both locally and nationally require the adoption of better strategies that help maintain a more substantial system that can control negative ideologies within the system (Bell, 2020). Liberal democracies are adequately considering creating a stronger outlay on better processes that help in redefining individuals’ policies and aspects that define their commitment. Localism and nationalism have been determined based on a more influential context, which helps understand the level of responsibility as well as the need of individuals within the society (Giguere, 2018). It is essential to understand the policies that are implemented within a given context, which help build a strong change and emphasis on diverse measures that create change and positive level integration.
Localism includes a range of decisions that are politically influenced, which prioritize the local context. Nationalism promotes regional engagement. However, it is essential to understand that despite the focus on regional development, there is still an imbalance within the local context, which helps in redefining a strong structure that helps promote the needs of individuals while presenting a clear structure for change and development. The intensifying of nationalism and localism has been mainly influenced by the changing in ideologies of different states which have been less successful within the regional or international organization (Fiala, 2019). The Brexit move by Britain highlights the change in approach to development with key prioritization of the county’s own interests rather than regional or global.
The Brexit and Trump victory in the United States shows that commitment that people have in the localization and nationalism. Trump was able to convince Americans about his focus on putting the interests of Americans first. The Brexit also focused on putting the interests of British citizens first. This is opposed to globalization intentions, which have been promoting the consideration of the world as one large block and a single economy (Zelinsky, 2017). However, this approach has been effective, considering the more significant commitment to global interests in place of local development. The primary threat that effectively links all these changes within the system through a focus on sovereignty and self-rule, as well as the implementation of better measures that can help promote local progress (Fiala, 2019).
The international and supranational integration has been greatly affected by the increased focus on localism and nationalism because they advance different ideologies that affected people. International and supranational integration focus on enhancing global growth. This is without divisions perpetrated by localism or nationalism (Wilson, 2019). Regional and international organizations tend to control power and decisions that are undertaken by member states. The European Union and the World Trade Organization are supranational entities that have been committed to fostering regional and global integration (Bell, 2020). However, the intensified focus on localism and nationalism undermines these efforts and creates an imbalance that is difficult to overcome because each country is seeking to control its own policies and ideologies based on political and economic growth.
References
Bell, E. (2020). Post-Brexit nationalism: challenging the British political tradition?. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1-17.
Fiala, A. (2019). On Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Resurgent Nationalism and the Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Localism. Dialogue and Universalism, (1), 37-56.
Giguere, J. M. (2018). Localism and Nationalism in the City of the Dead: The Rural Cemetery Movement in the Antebellum South. Journal of Southern History, 84(4), 845-882.
Wilson, T. M. (2019). Old and New Nationalisms in the Brexit Borderlands of Northern Ireland. In Cycles of Hatred and Rage (pp. 25-51). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Zelinsky, W. (2017). Nation into state: The shifting symbolic foundations of American nationalism. UNC Press Books.