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The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order doing so. Therefore the Community should fully comprehend these inherent dangers and must remain adequately informed of its minutest details, so that whatever course is chosen by the adversary to launch an attack, the Community is prepared to swiftly counter such attacks with intelligence. RISING TRENDS OF NATIONALISM AND RACISM IN EUROPE In the wake of recent developments in Europe, as I mentioned earlier, nationalism will gain momentum in Europe and will be followed by racism. In fact, nationalism and racism are deeply interlinked. They differ only in their areas of scope and influence. First of all you must remember that the Soviet Union is not composed of one nation. The world consists of various types of states. Some of them emerged on the basis of nationalism and then adhered to it, while the others were established on the basis of some ideology. Israel is a case in point where both these elements coexist. But in the case of most countries, the concept of a state based on nationalism is quite ambiguous. In fact these states are inhabited by more than one nation, and they always keep trying to distract the attention of their people from the fact of national diversity to forestall their disintegration. For instance, these days, the United Kingdom is in the grip of this problem. Geographically it has Scotland in its north, Wales in the West, then further deep in the West is Ireland. Some differences between the north and the south are reaching national proportions. Of all their conflicts, the prominent differences are between the Scottish and the English, the Welsh and the English, and between the Irish and the English. On the surface, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, appears to be one nation, and when faced with any external danger they all get united for common interest and in such eventuality, a wider national interest prevails. But during peace time the same old sub-national trends surface and the nature of national danger changes. They start giving vent to mistrust against one another, and display selfishness in their mutual relations. Their differences, then, make them look distinctly as separate nationalities, and then their mutual relationship is measured by the regional yardstick. Selfishness at national level creates division, because the inhabitants of the south start saying that they have to protect the interest of the south, the English give priority to their interest over 75