Cold War Undercurrents: The Extreme-Right Variants in East Asia
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Published:2021-08-02
Issue:3
Volume:49
Page:403-430
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ISSN:0032-3292
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Container-title:Politics & Society
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Politics & Society
Abstract
This study examines the mobilization of the Far Right in Korea and Japan in the 2000s and probes how and why the actors and political claims of East Asian extremists differ from their counterparts in Europe and North America. The Far Right forces in Korea and Japan are politically regressive in glorifying the authoritarian or colonial past and cling to unchanging ideological claims from the postwar decades in their current targeting of old-time, internal “others.” This divergence is explained by the United States–led Cold War geopolitics in Asia, under which Far Right elites were fortified in postwar Japan and Korea. The Cold War that has not ended in Asia as opposed to Europe or North America further allows the institutional sustainability of the radical Right and the political resonance of its old ideology of anticommunism and colonial racism. As such, democratic politics in East Asia is predicated on Cold War undercurrents.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science
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