Introduction to “Right-Wing Activism in Asia: Cold War Legacies, Geopolitics, and Democratic Erosion†*

Yoonkyung Lee

Politics & Society, 2021, vol. 49, issue 3, 303-310

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Far Right; Cold War; geopolitics; democratic erosion; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/00323292211033081

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