The emergence of extremism as a response to the globalization of society

The purpose of this study is to consider the negative impact of globalization processes. The negative consequences of globalization include political and economic crises, environmental disasters, spiritual and moral genocide, increased racial, interethnic and religious intolerance, increased social polarization, both in national systems and at the international level. As a result of these processes, there has been a significant increase in the economically disadvantaged segment of the population. All these factors combined have led to the growth of various kinds of protest movements, incl. extremist orientation. The objectives of the study are to analyze the negative consequences occurring at the present stage, under the influence of globalization processes that determined the nature of extremism, as a reaction to the globalization of society, which became the source of crises that occurred one after another: banking, financial, structural and the global world crisis became the final one. As a result of the dynamic development of information systems, the weakening of border regimes, an increase in the possibilities of cross-border movement of financial resources and the active implementation of a policy of global and local dissemination of their cultural and legal values by a number of states, a number of states have led to the intensification of extremist activity, and also entailed its qualitative transformation. Thus, extremism, as a phenomenon, ceased to be concentrated within certain national boundaries. As part of the study, the author came to the conclusion that the dynamics and concepts of globalization provoked the growth of extremism, which grew into radical fundamentalism. All this requires the development of effective measures aimed at overcoming the economic, political, spiritual, moral and cultural crises that provoke religious and political factors that are expressed in the strengthening of extremism.

globalization, extremism, radicalism, fundamentalism