Abstract
The rise of nationalism and conservatism in Central Europe over the last decade was a regional manifestation of the crisis of the (neo)liberal globalization era. It was a revolt against the ideological presuppositions of this era.
The collapse of the Soviet Bloc (and, later on, the Soviet Union itself) at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s confirmed the victory of (neo)liberal-conservative individualism and anti-statism, whose ideological and economic foundations were laid over the long 1970s as a response to the crisis of collectivist and statist projects - socialism or nationalism - that defined the twentieth century after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Simultaneously, with the victory of the (neo)liberal-conservative paradigm, the Cold War bipolarity was replaced by the global hegemony of the United States as leader of the West.
Under its auspices, globalization was extended to all parts of the planet