Description
In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe.
After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. A series of thematic chapters examine transnational phenomena such as the use of the Internet, the racist music scene, cultural transfers and interaction between different groups.
Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in contemporary extremism, fascism and comparative party politics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Mapping the ‘Right of the Mainstream Right’ in Contemporary Europe Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins Part 1: Local and Regional Perspectives 1. Backlash in the ‘Hood’: Exploring Support for the British National Party (BNP) at Local Level Matthew J. Goodwin 2. After Colonialism: Local Politics and Far-Right Affinities in a City of Southern France John Veugelers 3. Placing the Extremes: Cityscape, Ethnic ‘Others’, and Young Right Extremists in East Berlin Nitzan Shoshan 4. Extreme-Right Discourse in Belgium: A Comparative Regional Approach JérômeJamin 5. Regionalism, Right-wing Extremism, Populism: The Elusive Nature of the Lega Nord Giorgia Bulli and Filippo Tronconi Part 2: The Southern European Extreme Right after Dictatorships 6. The Portuguese Radical Right in the Democratic Period Riccardo Marchi 7. The Spanish Extreme Right: From Neo-Francoism to Xenophobic Discourse José L.Rodríguez Jiménez 8. LAOS and the Greek Far Right since 1974 Antonis A. Ellinas Part 3: The Extreme Right In Post-Communism Context 9. The Extreme Right in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia Věra Stojarová 10. Extreme-Right Paramilitary Units in Eastern Europe Miroslav Mareš and Richard Stojar 11. Extreme-Right Parties in Romania after 1990: Incumbency, Organisation and Success Gabriela Borz 12. Anti-Semitism and the Extreme Right in Contemporary Ukraine Per Rudling Part 4: National and Comparative Perspectives: A Challenge to 'Exceptionalism'? 13. Challenging the Exceptionalist View: Favourable Conditions for Radical Right-Wing Populism in Switzerland Damir Skenderovic 14. Turkish Extreme Right in Office: Whither Democracy and Democratisation? Ekin Burak Arikan 15. Scandinavian Right-Wing Parties: Diversity more than Convergence? Marie Demker 16. Downside after the Summit: Factors in Extreme-Right Party Decline in France and Austria Michelle Hale Williams Part 5: From 'Local' to 'Transnational 17. Rights, Roots, and Routes: Local and Transnational Contexts of Extreme-Right Movements in Contemporary Malta Mark-Anthony Falzon and Mark Micallef 18. Cross-national Ideology in Local Elections: The case of Azione Sociale and the British National Party Andrea Mammone and Timothy Peace 19. The Transfer of Ideas along a Cultural Gradient: the Influence of the European New Right on Aleksandr Panarin’s New Eurasianism Marina Peunova 20. Trans European Trends in Right-Wing Extremism Michael Whine
