The youth leaders are carrying the Latvian flags in a procession on March 16, 2023, the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires. The Latvian Legion was part of the Waffen SS. Photo: Jaunieši Latvijai

The youth leaders are carrying the Latvian flags in a procession on March 16, 2023, the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires. The Latvian Legion was part of the Waffen SS. Photo: Jaunieši Latvijai

Peer-reviewed articles Making tomorrow’s leaders The transnationalism of radical right youth organizations in the Baltic Sea area, 2015–2019

Radical right parties (RRPs) have been extensively studied throughout the past two decades. One neglected aspect is the youth organizations (YOs) of RRPs and their transnational networks. This article analyzes the transnational links between the YOs of RRPs in Estonia and Latvia. The article contributes to the literature by arguing for four findings relating to the transnational links between the YOs of RRPs, which provide a window into the future of the parties being analyzed.

Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2023:3, 62-77
Published on balticworlds.com on August 23, 2023

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abstract

Radical right parties (RRPs) have been extensively studied throughout the past two decades. One neglected aspect is the youth organizations (YOs) of RRPs and their transnational networks. This article analyzes the transnational links between the YOs of RRPs in Estonia and Latvia. The article contributes to the literature by arguing for four findings relating to the transnational links between the YOs of RRPs, which provide a window into the future of the parties being analyzed.

Keywords: EKRE; The National Alliance; radical right parties; youth wings; transnational networks.

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Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga

  • by Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga

    Pēteris F Timofejevs Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University. He has written on Europeanization of foreign aid policy in Central and Eastern Europe and European NGOs working with development cooperation. Currently, his research is focused on radical right parties in the Baltic Sea area, their positions in foreign and environmental policies and their youth organizations. Louis John Wierenga Lecturer in International Relations at the Baltic Defence College, PhD fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu and Research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA). His research interests include populist radical right parties – specifically leadership and party structure, social media and discursive opportunity structures, youth organizations and transnational networks. Currently, Wirenga is part of a project entitled, “Making Tomorrow’s Leaders” which is a Swedish Research Council project analyzing youth organizations of far-right parties.

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