http://gslreview.com/globalization/ GLOBALIZATION, THE EU, AND THE RISE OF “ALTERNATIVE NATIONALISM” A – INTRODUCTION 1. A new, radical ideology of “Alternative Nationalism” has emerged across the Western capitalist world. To understand this major historic phenomenon, we need to place it in the context of globalization. 2. Globalization, however, is itself a tripartite phenomenon and its three component dimensions can – and do – stand in direct contradiction to one another. One needs to distinguish between economic globalization, political globalization and cultural globalization. Each of these dimensions retains a relative autonomy which can be contradictory with respect to the other dimensions. We shall argue that it is precisely such triple internal contradiction within globalization that has given rise to “Alternative Nationalism” as a grassroots movement in the Western world. 3. We shall further argue that this grassroots movement has thus far yielded two extremely important consequences at the sphere of the political: the Brexit Movement in Britain and the Trump Movement in the USA (the Brexit phenomenon has been skeptical of the EU as a supranational State; the Trump phenomenon has been skeptical of globalization as a whole). 4. The internal structural contradictions of globalization as such and the rise of “Alternative Nationalism” in particular have themselves yielded specific structural contradictions within the EU itself. 5. We shall argue that, given such overall context, nation-state politics have been placed in command. 6. Concomitantly, the issue of national culture and national identity has itself been placed in command, and given the cultural impact of immigration. This has yielded widespread sentiments amongst the Western popular masses that are essentially anti-migrant and anti-Muslim.