Liberal Nationalism vs Radical Nationalism

Liberal Nationalism

Conservative/Radical Nationalism

• According to this school of thought, humanity is naturally divided into nations that have equal rights to all the lands with some territorial boundaries.
• Each nation must be sovereign and self-governed by its own political institutions. National rights are universal and also similar to human rights.
• This form of nationalism is perfectly compatible with more internationalist, pacifist, and idealist elements within liberalism.
• A world of sovereign nations will respect one another’s national rights and will easily cooperate with international organizations.

• Conservative nationalism is not only egoistic in character, but also a retrospective in terms of its orientation.
• It mostly ....