Introduction to 'Right-Wing Activism in Asia
Cold War Legacies, Geopolitics, and Democratic Erosion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2317485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoonkyung Lee (0000-0002-5756-6588, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-310 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00323292211033081 |
| OpenAlex | W3192175768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay introduces four articles that form a special issue of Politics & Society titled 'Right-Wing Activism in Asia: Cold War Legacies, Geopolitics, and Democratic Erosion.' The articles focus on Japan, South Korea, and Thailand. These three Asian countries present important cases to generate critical comparative insights about the patterns of Far Right mobilization, for their geopolitical histories provide common ground while institutional variations set distinctive conditions. Most importantly, all of them were shaped by the particularly sharp conflicts of the Cold War in the region, and the articles in this issue demonstrate how this legacy has generated illiberal conditions in these countries today
Cold war · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Geopolitics · Iron Curtain · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Right wing · Sociology · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |