Homesick Politics

But I am not a nostalgic type.

No surprise, then, that they are nostalgic for the past, including Stalin.

These two versions of the Chavez years are both distorted to a certain degree by nostalgia.

Still, the illusion was nice while it lasted, and Obamamania may contain an element of nostalgia, as well as hope.

At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again, instead of the nasty, brutish past.

Yet there is an undeniable whiff of nostalgia in the current rapprochement between two powers that are both conscious of their relative decline in the world.

It continued last fall with the wave of violence in the suburbs.

What is the link between nostalgia for a simplified and less risky banking sector and the wish to reintroduce a currency system that also seems a relic of the past?

The current trend toward rose colored retrospection is a case in point. Faced with political, economic, geostrategic, and social uncertainty, policymakers have increasingly succumbed to the allure of nostalgia, promising a return to what they portray as the familiar and complete rules and practices of the past.

But this slogan is from the 1920 s and seems like a nostalgic reminder of past turmoil that one prefers to see on the stage.

So no one in Europe needs to fear that the Czech Republic has some nostalgic or idiosyncratic agenda that it wants to impose on the Union.

The Secretary General's report also draws attention to the wave of humanitarian emergencies experienced during the past year.

Over longer distances, a shock wave can change from a nonlinear wave into a linear wave, degenerating into a conventional sound wave as it heats the air and loses energy.

The economic literature identifies two waves of OFDI in the 1960s 1970s and thereafter.

There is still a certain degree of nostalgia on the far right for Fanco s dictatorship.

Last week's brutal bombing in Madrid is part of a wave of terror that has made victims of Christians as well as Muslims.

This politics of nostalgia is troubling, not only because France and Europe confront severe economic challenges, but also because France and other democracies are confronted with real challenges to their legitimacy.

Diaspora cultures thrive on nostalgic dreams of return.

Although no particular heat wave can be directly attributed to global warming, it will make such events more frequent. Moreover, if global warming continues unchecked, the number of deaths that occur when rainfall becomes more erratic, causing both prolonged droughts and severe floods, will dwarf the death toll from hot weather in Europe.

But Volcker has also been a prominent critic of the dangers of currency volatility. What is the link between nostalgia for a simplified and less risky banking sector and the wish to reintroduce a currency system that also seems a relic of the past?

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This absence of animating purpose, of faith in the future, has made us hungry for our past.

The last decade saw the peak of an unprecedented housing boom in most of the rich world.

I know that we have come a long way, and I do not want to go back. But was it really inevitable that so much solidarity had to escape our Solidarity?

In the past year, the world has seen another boom, with a tsunami of capital, portfolio equity, and fixed income investments surging into emerging market countries perceived as having strong macroeconomic, policy, and financial fundamentals.

The bailout of banks led to a wave of mergers.

The Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War led to a wave of pogroms.

He is nostalgic for the 1960's and the Gaullist ideology that shaped both France and himself.

He listens to a short wave radio station.

But Soviet nostalgia has far more to do with Russia s traditional Great Power ambitions than with communism.

The lawmakers' decision has already led to even more protests.

This is inevitable, because that rupture is being fueled by the simple acknowledgement that responsible governments must place national interests ahead of nostalgia, grandstanding rhetoric, and strident ideology.

The last major wave of emigration occurred during the 2001 crisis, mainly to Europe, especially Spain, although there was also an increase in emigration to neighboring countries, particularly Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.

The Edo nostalgia in Japan and the Norway model s appeal in the UK are not rational choices.

Last year, more than a hundred people were killed in bush fires in Australia, following drought and record breaking heat.

Last week the rebuilt Hurva, or Ruin, Synagogue was opened in the old city of Jerusalem, amidst a wave of protests by Palestinians.

Out of nostalgia, perhaps? A full page ad for Patek Philippe has Thierry Stern, the president of the company, saying that he listens to the chime of every watch with a minute repeater that his company makes, as his father and grandfather did before him.

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

This yearning for providential men or women in our global age results from at least three factors.

Last year s wave of wildcat strikes in the mining sector which precipitated the infamous Marikana massacre ended up shaving 0.5 off the country s GDP growth in 2012.

With Putin s current clampdown on civil society, re nationalization of key segments of the economy, failure to develop any political approach to resolving the conflict in Chechnya, and cultivation of imperial nostalgia, Russia is killing its only chance to matter in the future.

WAVE

In Japan, the isolationist temptation is expressed in the current nostalgia for the Edo period, from 1600 to 1868, before Emperor Meiji opened Japan to the world.

But, when historians look back on the wave of globalization after 1990 which has brought two billion new producers into the world economy they will find a turning point around 2010.