Mapping the extreme right in contemporary Europe. From local to transnational

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.

Contents:

Introduction: mapping the ‘right of the mainstream right’ in contemporary Europe - Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins

Part I: 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 - Jérôme Jamin
5. Regionalism, right-wing extremism, populism: the elusive nature of the Lega Nord - Giorgia Bulli and Filippo Tronconi

Part II: 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 extreme right since 1974 - Antonis A. Ellinas

Part III: The Extreme Right in a 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, organization and success - Gabriela Borz
12. Anti-Semitism and the extreme right in contemporary Ukraine - Per Anders Rudling

Part IV: 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 democratization? - 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 V: 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