1st Edition

Right-Wing Radicalism Today Perspectives from Europe and the US

Edited By Sabine von Mering, Timothy Wyman McCarty Copyright 2013
224 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include: Who joins radical right parties and why? Recent developments in... Read more

1. Introduction Sabine von Mering & Timothy Wyman McCarty  2. Globalized Anti-Globalists. The Ideological Basis of the Internationalization of Right-Wing Extremism Thomas Grumke 3. Right-Wing Extremism and Populism in Contemporary Germany and Western Europe Hans-Gert Jaschke  4. National Solidarity—No to Globalization. The Economic and Sociopolitical Platform of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke  5. Extreme Right Activists: Recruitment and Experiences Bert Klandermans  6. A Comparative Look at Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Semitism, and Xenophobic Hate Crime in Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia Joachim Kersten and Natalia Hankel  7. Welfare Chauvinism, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Conditions for the Electoral Breakthrough of Radical Right Parties: Evidence from Eastern Europe Lenka Bustikova  8. From Tea Parties to Militias: Between the Republican Party and the Insurgent Ultra-Right In the United States Chip Berlet  9. Cycles of Right-Wing Terror in the United States Peter Simi  10. Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf – A Book of the Past in the Present Othmar Plöckinger  11. Afterword Kathleen Blee

Biography

Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US.

Timothy Wyman McCarty is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US. His research and teaching focuses on political theory, the history of ideas, and literature and politics.