My question was: Would this guy actually do something, or would he keep looking and not perform his duty?" A decade after Tito's death in 1980 came the years of bloody conflict that sundered the former Yugoslavia, and the authoritarian, nationalistic rule of Franjo Tudjman, Croatia's first president, which ended in 1999.
Iran today is a land of paradox and contradiction: a sophisticated, highly nationalistic population is ruled by hard-line religious ideologues averse to their own country's history.
In the view of Mr. Paxton, Mr. Hussein's regime has more in common with many third-world dictatorships that are militaristic and nationalistic but that rule more through brute force than through mass mobilization.
This entails autocratic or authoritarian rule that promotes nationalistic, intolerant views and subverts the rule of law, individual liberties and free speech.
Of course, many Olympic truths, camouflaged by unfamiliar sports with confounding rules and stubborn nationalistic agendas, can be more difficult to reach than even those deemed existential.
This nationalistic sally broke all the rules of European Union behaviour, which dictate that the war may be cited only to highlight the miracle of post-war reconciliation.Yet when it comes to Poland's recent failures in Brussels, crass and amateurish are the epithets that matter more.
Fadwa's poetry became more overtly nationalistic after Israel came to rule Nablus in 1967.
It is equally heartening that the 55 per cent of Scots who duly proved themselves stereotypically canny allowed their purses to over-rule whatever ugly nationalistic sentiments they may have harboured.
Around this time, tensions began to arise between what was perceived as president Núñez's dictatorial rule and the nationalistic support group, Boixos Nois.
Compromises would also have to be worked out in dividing powers between central and regional authorities to grant constituencies enough of a sense of self-rule to override narrow nationalistic aspirations.
