The Relationship between the Economic Crisis and the Growth of Extreme Right Movements: The Case of Hungary

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Authors

1 * Assistant Professor of Political Science of Institute of Iranian History and Culture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

2 PhD Student in International Relations, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Recently, some factors, especially economic crisis, have made it possible to criticize the policies of the ruling parties, making their policies deficiency and magnifying the current situation and chanting slogans about the unequal distribution of resources, indigenous people or the destruction of national resources. Right-wing parties have achieved remarkable success in elections by linking economic problems to foreigners, including political and economic institutions or immigrants, as well as government policy. The present article in a descriptive and analytical way, while paying attention to the role of economic crisis in the formation of far right in Hungary, believes that economic crisis in far right thinking is based on contexts beyond the economy and specifically is intensified by identical and cultural elements. In the other words, in the study and analysis of far-right, it should be noted that trends such as EU policy, including the imposition of economic austerity policies, guidelines on immigration and the implementation of specific policies by previous governments, are largely catalyzing and accelerating about the long term crisis. Therefore, some traces of fascist and monopolistic tendencies emerge in such currents, having nationalist origin, are extremely prone to become totalitarian and antagonistic currents. Using the Copenhagen School and in particular emphasizing the security of affairs in this approach, the current study aims to show how extreme right currents, including Hungary, draw a special situation of foreigners and immigrants to show various economic, social and cultural affairs as political issues.

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International Political Economy Studies
Volume 4, Issue 1
September 2021
Pages 237-264

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  • Receive Date: 04 July 2020
  • Revise Date: 17 January 2021
  • Accept Date: 18 January 2021

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