1st Edition

The Extreme Right Freedom And Security At Risk

By Aurel Braun, Stephen Scheinberg Copyright 1997
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    303 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, offering a historical-sociological account of right-wing extremist movements in American history, seeks to identify threats to freedom and security, assess the responses to such threats, and suggest some means of dealing with the potential dangers.

    Introduction -- Right-Wing Extremism: In Search of a Definition -- Canada: Right-Wing Extremism in the Peaceable Kingdom -- Right-Wing Extremism in the United States -- The Extreme Right in the United Kingdom and France -- Contemporary Right-Wing Extremism in Germany -- The Incomplete Revolutions: The Rise of Extremism in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union -- Russia: The Land Inbetween -- Poland: The Vanguard of Change -- Hungary: From “Goulash Communism” to Pluralistic Democracy -- The Internationalization of the Extreme Right -- Conclusions -- Appendix: List of Research Interviews -- About the Book

    Biography

    Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.