Ukrainian Right-Wing Extremists : Exploring Their Involvement in the Ongoing War and Outlining Potential Threats for Post-War Ukraine

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.obranaastrategie.cz/cs/archiv/rocnik-2024/1-2024/articles/ukrainian-right-wing-extremists.html" target="_blank" >https://www.obranaastrategie.cz/cs/archiv/rocnik-2024/1-2024/articles/ukrainian-right-wing-extremists.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3849/1802-7199.24.2024.01.107-123" target="_blank" >10.3849/1802-7199.24.2024.01.107-123</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Ukrainian Right-Wing Extremists : Exploring Their Involvement in the Ongoing War and Outlining Potential Threats for Post-War Ukraine

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

As the Russia-Ukraine war constitutes the most severe security challenge Europe has faced since the Cold War's end, many states have realized the fragility of statehood, which an aggressor can destroy overnight. Although this concern is valid, it should not overshadow other security threats. Unlike other authors addressing the phenomenon of foreign fighters in the war, the present article investigates the involvement of Ukrainian right-wing extremists regarding the pre-2022 development, during which the growing sociocultural nationalism, militarism, and tolerance of ultranationalist and ethnonational groups helped shrink their isolation. While they might have played an important role in Ukraine's territorial defence, heavily armed and combat-skilled right-wing extremists might pose a severe threat to Ukraine's post-war restoration. Initially, whereas a literature review indicates the hitherto research and positions the article's inquiry within it, existing theoretical approaches define the observed actors. Based on the open-source intelligence data collection from Telegram and content analysis, the article identified several Ukrainian and also foreign right-wing extremists involved in the war despite its focus on the former. It concludes that the predecessor authors' debated threats associated with the latter, i.e., physical threats, organizational challenges, and wider societal consequences, should be primarily applied to Ukraine.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Ukrainian Right-Wing Extremists : Exploring Their Involvement in the Ongoing War and Outlining Potential Threats for Post-War Ukraine

Popis výsledku anglicky

As the Russia-Ukraine war constitutes the most severe security challenge Europe has faced since the Cold War's end, many states have realized the fragility of statehood, which an aggressor can destroy overnight. Although this concern is valid, it should not overshadow other security threats. Unlike other authors addressing the phenomenon of foreign fighters in the war, the present article investigates the involvement of Ukrainian right-wing extremists regarding the pre-2022 development, during which the growing sociocultural nationalism, militarism, and tolerance of ultranationalist and ethnonational groups helped shrink their isolation. While they might have played an important role in Ukraine's territorial defence, heavily armed and combat-skilled right-wing extremists might pose a severe threat to Ukraine's post-war restoration. Initially, whereas a literature review indicates the hitherto research and positions the article's inquiry within it, existing theoretical approaches define the observed actors. Based on the open-source intelligence data collection from Telegram and content analysis, the article identified several Ukrainian and also foreign right-wing extremists involved in the war despite its focus on the former. It concludes that the predecessor authors' debated threats associated with the latter, i.e., physical threats, organizational challenges, and wider societal consequences, should be primarily applied to Ukraine.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Obrana a strategie

ISSN

1214-6463

e-ISSN

1802-7199

Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

107-124

Kód UT WoS článku

001333790100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85198826930