ABSTRACT
In the first flush of enthusiasm in the nineteenth century nationalism in Europe was hailed by liberal-minded people as the ideal end towards which the whole international creation moved. Many look on it as parochial and out-dated, over-taken by the modern requirements of technology and economic development, and by the administrative needs of the modern state. The history of Europe is a great repository of experience of the problems of reconciling political freedom with political unification. Under the shadow of the mighty armaments of Russia and the United States, it is fashionable to decry the division of Europe into many nations and states. The attenuation or suppression of individual liberties in parts of le tiers monde is more often than not excused on the ground that it is necessary to prevent disorder or “subversion”. The western attitudes towards the role of the military in the emerging and reawakening countries have fluctuated widely.
