Nothing fails like success: The London Ambassadors’ Conference and the coming of the First World War

McKinney, Jared Morgan

doi:10.1080/01402390.2018.1482458

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“…Once again, this is not mere theorizing. The ‘competitive prestige’ with which the European states of the early twentieth century reeked led to a masculine political scene in which ‘winning’ required forcing the other to back down in a ‘trial of strength’ (Offer 1995 ; Frevert 2007 ; McKinney 2018 ). When no one backed down, war was the outcome (Levy and Vasquez 2014 ; Stevenson 2014 ).…”

Section: Nationalism As a Genus: Concept And Logicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, intolerance seems doomed to fail in India, where minorities constitute a sizable part of the population and the state is incompetent and weak. But the Chinese should bring to mind a weather-worn maxim: 'nothing fails like success' (see McKinney 2018). 'Success' in China's campaign for cultural and national unity makes failure at the level of international politics much more likely by (indirectly) fashioning the USA into an existential enemy (see Harris 2021).…”

Section: Whither the Great Powers Of The Indo-pacific?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Homogenizing nationalists, budding fascists, and truculent exceptionalists: the end of world order in the Indo-Pacific

McKinney

2021

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Building on Ernest Gellner’s theory of the nation-state and drawing on insights from John Lukacs and George Kennan, this article contends that the major powers of the contemporary Indo-Pacific are characterized by conflicting nationalisms. Homogenizing nationalism seeks to form China—a former multiethnic empire—into a unitary nation-state. Budding fascism endeavors to transform India—founded as a secular state—into a Hindu nation in which there is little place for the ‘other.’ And in the USA, truculent exceptionalism readily acknowledges that coexistence with China is no longer possible in the long run. All three powers have an alternative that they might embrace: toleration. But civility, in both domestic and international politics, is increasingly rare. The future of world order in the Indo-Pacific does not look bright.

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Section: Nationalism As a Genus: Concept And Logicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Whither the Great Powers Of The Indo-pacific?mentioning

confidence: 99%