Successful movements provide images and moral incentives that result in the motivation and mobilization of other ethnic movements in similar economic and political conditions.
Whenever someone asks me why Chinese citizens ultimately tolerate the corruption and curbs on personal liberties that accompany the current state of affairs or why they react with such force to ethnic movements that they view as a threat to stability—I point out that other deprivations still loom larger in the collective memory.
The likes of Putin and Trump don't create ethnic movements, they create gangs in which the only criterion that really matters is whether you are "with us" or "against us", whether you are ready to insult or hurt the "others" no matter who they are and what you used to feel about them.
Whenever someone asks me why Chinese citizens ultimately tolerate the corruption and curbs on personal liberties that accompany the current state of affairs — or why they react with such force to ethnic movements that they view as a threat to stability — I point out that other deprivations still loom larger in the collective memory.
The fear is that members of Ethiopia's elite may fight for control, ethnic movements on the periphery could be emboldened by a power vacuum and Eritrea might sense an opportunity to destabilise its arch-foe.Leaders in Rwanda and Angola, two other booming strongman states, should take note.
As the Berlin Wall fell, how many of us suspected that the unrivalled military and economic power of the United States would so soon be challenged by non-state actors and ethnic movements?
Bernie Sanders demonstrated that by sharing the rage of those who've been left out and by redirecting their anger to the rigged economy and political system that has impoverished and disempowered them it was possible to invest them in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic movement for change.
Shas is a religious party that doubles as an ethnic pride movement for working-class Jews of Middle Eastern origin.
Neither of two possible partners — the far-right Ataka party and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms — would make a comfortable fit.
A1 Tamils Avoid Sri Lanka Vote Monitors for the Sri Lankan presidential elections said supporters of the ethnic separatist movement Tamils Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam might have dissuaded fellow Tamils, who make up nearly 20percentt of the population, from casting votes.
