Geopolitical explanation of globalization and the growth of nationalist populism in the West

In recent decades, the populist wave has been spreading in western democracies and has put challenges in front of them. On the other hand, the phenomenon of globalization in the last decades of the 20th century showed its presence and spread its deep influence on various fields of economy, politics and culture, and as a threat to the sovereignty and single-handedness of nation-states, it caused crises. identity and cultural, economic, political and security. The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of globalization in the growth of populism in Western countries. Therefore, the main research question is, what role has globalization played in the strengthening and growth of nationalist populism in the West? The claim of the present article is that the consequences of globalization, including (the growth of xenophobia in the form of anti-immigration policies, identity crisis, migration crisis, political-economic and social crisis, the failure and non-implementation of the goals of the globalization phenomenon and the obvious lack of political and economic options, culture in western countries to deal with or contain these conditions at the national level, which has fueled the rise of citizens' dissatisfaction, has caused the growth of populism and an opportunity for the rise of nationalist populism currents in the west. Qualitative research method, of the type of causal explanation and data collection method, Library as well as the use of resources, while rereading the theoretical concepts of globalization and populism,.