Topic: Rising Nationalism and Political Extremism
Country: Saudi Arabia
Delegate Name: Joshua Lancaster
School: Grand Rapids City High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Saudi Arabia position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Saudi Arabia recognizes what Nationalism can do to a nation and more specifically it's people, Saudi Arabia is also wary to not only define nationalism as inherently bad as well implementing rules that impose upon a nations sovereignty. Nationalism can be used by a nation to get out of a rough spot like a depression, and if it is handled well it is not a problem. Because of this however, Saudi Arabia questions whether or not it is in SpecPol committee's rights to ask a country to change nationalism? It seems that extremism is a case by case basis and therefor is a domestic problem. A problem that SpecPol can not address. Saudi Arabia hopes the this committee can create guidelines to an acceptable amount of nationalism, because too much nationalism can be bad for a country, but for poorer, or newer countries nationalism can be a useful tool.
