When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
Nationalism could almost be defined as intense national feeling for a country that does not yet exist, or for someone else's country.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
If we are a national institution, we must as a party reunite in rural and agricultural Canada. We can't be a national institution if we're only going for votes in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.
Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.