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So what is Kohn saying and what is he missing about nationalism? In a nutshell, his theory is that nationalism is a will, a sentiment, a state of mind, mostly referring to and pertinent in politics. "Nationalism - he writes - is a state of mind in which the supreme loyalty of the individual is felt to be due the nation-state" (p. 9). This state of mind emerged, according to Kohn, in the 18th century, initially in England (beginning with the 17th century), where it was facilitated by ideas of individual freedoms and rights and by the Puritan messianism. Building on previous social structures, English nationalism emerged as a civilized, universal and peaceful concept (though one gets to wonder from whose perspective...). The corruption of nationalism comes with German Romanticism and subsequently with the passion of the French Revolution and the Central & Eastern European national 'awakenings'.

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The way to preserve freedom and rationality in modern life is to persuade -- or force -- people to switch from ethnic to civic nationalism. If only, so the argument goes, we could persuade Serbians -- or Kosovars, or even the QuÈbÈcois -- to replace their visions of ethnic or cultural unity with our vision of civic solidarity, then nationalism need no longer promote ethnic violence and intolerance.

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Consequently, the European Commission requested the early application of a directive which came into force in February 2004 stating that all member States must establish plans to accommodate vessels in distress in the waters of their jurisdiction and publish lists of ports of refuge.

An attempt to bring light to the controversial matter of Croat nationalism, Mark Biondich's Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928 makes a good start in explaining South Slavic nationalism by dissecting and particularizing it. Biondich's book is focused on a very limited period of time and is centered on one influential Croat historical figure; it is not only a study of party politics, or a monograph, but an account of a top-down nationalist movement. The Croat Peasant Party's 'third way ideology' (79) - with emphasis on state rights, as opposed to the all-encompassing Yugoslavism and the separatist Croat nationalist movement -went on to become an influential mass (rather than class) party, mostly because of Radic's skillfulness in attracting peasants and in making political deals with the intelligentsia (66-67).

Every country is beautiful in its own manner and is really worth visiting, but there are some countries that attract much more tourists than others. There is the list of the 5 of the most visited countries of the last several years: 1) France (76.7 million visitors a year) 2) Spain (51.7 million visitors) 3) U.S. (41.9 million visitors) 4) Italy (39.8 million visitors) 5) China (36.8 million visitors)This is the data of 1998: 1) France (70 million visitors) 2) Spain (47,7 million visitors) 3) United States (47 million visitors) 4) Italy (34,8 million visitors) 5) United Kingdom (25,4 million visitors)

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"Freedom, freedom" and "Down with the communists".

many of them students