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LITERATURE REVIEW ON NATIONALISM CAUSING GLOBAL INSECURITY Name: Grade Course: Tutor`s Name: (10 February 2011) Literature review on nationalism causing global insecurity Introduction The literature review chapter is an in depth examination of the concept of global insecurity in relation to nationalism. Historically, man has lived and evolved coming to form regional boundaries forming sovereign nation. With this came the issue of nationalism which has been deemed of strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms. Often, it is the belief that an ethnic group has a right to statehood or that citizenship in a state should be limited to one ethnic group, or that multi-nationality in a single state should necessarily comprise the right to express and exercise national identity even by minorities (Grenfell & Warren, 2008). It also includes the belief that the state is of primary importance, one state is naturally superior to all other states. It is also used to describe a movement to establish or protect a homeland for an ethnic group. In some cases the identification of a national culture is combined with a negative view of other races or cultures. With this, security problem usually occurs and in the recent past has proved to be a global concern. With globalization which has seen to it that the world has turned into a global villages characterized with free movement of goods, services, labor and capital the p...