Open AccessRight-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests
Author(s) -
Syed Hussain Murtaza,
Muqarrab Akbar,
Rafida Nawaz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global foreign policies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2788-5038
pISSN - 2788-502X
DOI - 10.31703/gfpr.2021(iv-iv).01
Subject(s) - ideology , terrorism , xenophobia , nationalism , communism , political science , unrest , populism , white supremacy , multiculturalism , political economy , right wing , left wing politics , law , sociology , criminology , racism , politics
The USA acclaims to be a multicultural land of opportunity assimilating migrant settlers since its inception,but another facet of the USA is a culture of white racial supremacy, and orthodox beliefs regarding blacks, women, religiousand ideological others. The policy of constructing the ideological other, i.e., communism, was the highlight of cold warpolitics. The end of the cold war brought a shift in US policy and led to the rise of right-wing nationalist groups. The Trumpvictory was the triumph of these groups leading to an exponential rise in incidents of domestic terrorism during the TrumpEra. The paper employing Realist IR theory analyzes the Right-wing terrorist ideology through secondary data. One outcomeof the study is that the ideology of populism employing violence is causing civil unrest and is a stigma for USA soft image,and the rise of domestic terrorism is associated with the wave of global religious revivalism.