What does the future hold? Some scholars believe that nationalism will continue to flourish as the main source of political identification. "Given that globalization has done little to diminish the nation's political [and] ideological . . . appeal ----and in many cases has invigorated it," one scholar writes, "we are stuck with the nation ----politically, academically, practically, and theoretically". Other scholars expect nationalism to eventually cease to be an important political phenomenon. The most common view among political scientists is a middle position that holds that nationalism will persist for the foreseeable future as a key sense of the political identification of most people but that it will not enjoy the unrivaled center stage presence it has had for several hundred years.