This paper, following the method of systematic balanced thinking, studies nationalism and nation-states amidst globalization, proposing main points: First, moving to center world stage, we should correctly understand nation-states, represent moral, theoretical technological commanding heights. Second, is a double-edged sword, national liberation movement in history was essentially against imper...

In thinking about democratization we should avoid a one-dimensional set of categories. Western observers sometimes picture events in the post-Soviet world as a clear-cut battle between the forces of democratic reform on the one side and those of nationalist extremism on the other. While this scenario captures much of the situation, it does not exhaust the field of political possibilities. Sever...