A N A LY S I S DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS RADICAL POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE The level of divisiveness and polarization we are witnessing today demands a more careful consideration of the social pro­cesses driving the radical forms of political engagement, of the dynamics of radicalization and its embeddedness in pressing social and political issues. With the EU and international attention focused on the coro­navirus COVID-19 pandemic, SEE political actors are less con­strained to flirt with anti-mi­grants sentiments of the public, sending signals that the ongo­ing anti-migrant radicalization might go full steam ahead. Vedran Džihić, Gazela Pudar Draško, Tijana Rečević, Kostis Karpozilos and Oszkár Roginer October 2020 New forms of emancipatory radicalism are necessary to continue an active struggle to sustain an open-ended perspective towards the fu­ture, thus enabling true political alternatives.