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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).01 10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).01 Published : Dec 2021Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests
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, religious and ideological others. The policy of constructing the ideological other, i.e., communism, was the highlight of cold war politics. The end of the cold war brought a shift in US policy and led to the rise of right-wing nationalist groups. The Trump victory was the triumph of these groups leading to an exponential rise in incidents of domestic terrorism during the Trump Era. The paper employing Realist IR theory analyzes the Right-wing terrorist ideology through secondary data. One outcome of 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.
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Right-Wing, Domestic Terrorism, Populism, National Image, USA
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(1) Syed Hussain Murtaza
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Political Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muqarrab Akbar
Chairman, Department of Political Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Rafida Nawaz
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Murtaza, S. H., Akbar, M., & Nawaz, R. (2021). Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV(IV), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).01
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CHICAGO : Murtaza, Syed Hussain, Muqarrab Akbar, and Rafida Nawaz. 2021. "Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (IV): 1-12 doi: 10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).01
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HARVARD : MURTAZA, S. H., AKBAR, M. & NAWAZ, R. 2021. Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV, 1-12.
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MHRA : Murtaza, Syed Hussain, Muqarrab Akbar, and Rafida Nawaz. 2021. "Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV: 1-12
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MLA : Murtaza, Syed Hussain, Muqarrab Akbar, and Rafida Nawaz. "Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV.IV (2021): 1-12 Print.
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OXFORD : Murtaza, Syed Hussain, Akbar, Muqarrab, and Nawaz, Rafida (2021), "Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests", Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (IV), 1-12
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TURABIAN : Murtaza, Syed Hussain, Muqarrab Akbar, and Rafida Nawaz. "Right-wing Terrorism and Emerging Threats to the US National Interests." Global Foreign Policies Review IV, no. IV (2021): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-IV).01