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1. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe

   From Local to Transnational

   Edited by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin, Brian Jenkins

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   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...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Uncivil Society?

   Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe

   Edited by Petr Kopecky, Cas Mudde

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the development of post-communist civil society by focusing on its alleged 'dark side', i.e., on the groups that are excluded from 'civil society' on both conceptual and normative grounds. The chapters, written by specialists in the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Confronting Right Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA

   By George Michael

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book examines the response to right-wing extremism in the US from both the government and non-governmental organisations. It provides a detailed portrait of the contemporary extreme right in the US including interviews with several of the movement's leading figures from groups such as the Ku...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Radical Left Parties in Europe

   By Luke March

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview of the main developments in contemporary European radical left parties (those defining themselves as to the left of,...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Counterterrorism in Turkey

   Policy Choices and Policy Effects toward the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

   By Mustafa Unal

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   Counterterrorism in Turkey comprehensively analyses Turkey’s counterterrorism policies in the context of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), an ethnicity-based guerrilla insurgency group employing terrorism. Contrary to most of the counterterrorism studies that focused on single aspect of the...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Populist Radical Right in Poland

   The Patriots

   By Rafal Pankowski

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal dynamics and the historical, political, social and cultural context that has made it possible. From...

   Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Political Extremes

   A conceptual history from antiquity to the present

   By Uwe Backes

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests as ‘extreme’, contrasting this to a virtuous...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. The End of Terrorism?

   By Leonard Weinberg

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another....

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
9. New British Fascism

   Rise of the British National Party

   By Matthew Goodwin

   Series: Extremism and Democracy

   The British National Party (BNP) is the most successful far right party in British political history. Based on unprecedented access to the party and its members, this book examines the rise of the BNP and explains what drives some citizens to support far right politics. It is essential reading for...

   Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola

    By Paul Furlong

    Series: Extremism and Democracy

    Julius Evola’s writing covered a vast range of subjects, from a distinctive and categorical ideological outlook and has been extremely influential on a significant number of extreme right thinkers, activists and organisations. This book is the first full length study in English to present his...

    Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge