His father, a journalist, poet and translator, lived and died for the Polish nationalist cause.
Part of it is creating a veneer of objection to, kind of, defend the Maliki government against nationalist opponents who criticize the agreement.
Yet as the casualties mount and next year's election approaches, Mr Erdogan is unlikely to risk nationalist ire by making more concessions.
His speech loosed a tide of nationalist sentiment.
Both parties are determined to keep from power the populists loyal to a fiery nationalist cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr.
What remains constant in the nationalist is his state of mind: the object of his feelings is changeable, and may be imaginary.
Changing national borders only rarely resolves nationalist and ethnic disputes.
Ms Estemirova had little sympathy with separatist self-rule and was quick to see through the nationalist rhetoric of General Jokhar Dudayev, who came to power in 1991.
Nikita Tikhonov, a 29-year-old ultra-nationalist who has admitted the murders, had been on the run since 2006, when a group of skinheads knifed to death a 19-year-old anti-fascist student.
As the revolution started to falter in the 1990s, he says, the nuclear option offered a way to rally nationalist opinion and "legitimate the regime".
The purist-nationalist French, overseen by the Académie Française, seem ready to embrace them.
Yet the authorities are also harrying nationalist leaders in the territory.
An old Yoruba town, it was the center of the nationalist movement before independence was achieved in 9 '0.
And the Turkish parliament began debating changes to laws that have led to the detention of 4, 000 Kurdish youths for such "crimes" as chanting nationalist slogans and throwing stones at police.
Ironically, the past few years of China's rapid economic rise and integration with the outside world have also brought a rising number of angry public protests over nationalist issues.
