Review article
GLOBALIZATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS
Damir Velički
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
According to right-wing worldview, globalization is a ruling method of those who want to destroy nations and their particularities in order to gain profit. At the same time, globalization has become a very important topic in right-wing extremists’agitation beyond particular national borders.Right-wing opponents to globalization form global networks, thus getting globalized in their endeavour to fight globalization. Right-wing extremism has become transnational in the ideological and structural sense. Owing to the complexity of the phenomenon, this paper only looks into some of its aspects. Firstly, the paper presents an analysis of the activities of a number of West European right-wing extremist parties. Secondly, it analyses right-wing extremism as a transnational phenomenon, forms of the international networking of right-wing parties and organizations, international right-wing network concerning youth subcultures, as well asmeasures of repression and prevention in some European countries. The author concludes that right-wing extremism, in its organized form, as well as in its subcultural form, does not pose any serious threat to democratic societies, despite its international networking. Nevertheless, the very fact that right-wing extremists are trying to overcome national differences, points to the fact that right-wing extremism should be kept under close scrutiny.
Keywords
globalization; right-wing extremism; right-wing extremist subculture; prevention
Hrčak ID:
112876
URI
Publication date:
25.6.2013.
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