1st Edition

The Far-Right in World Politics

Edited By Alexander Anievas, Richard Saull Copyright 2025
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South. The rise of far-right forms of politics in recent years throughout a range of geopolitical locales suggests the emergence of a distinct conjuncture in world politics, indicating a common set of enabling conditions and characteristics. It is... Read more

Introduction: The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right

Alexander Anievas and Richard Saull

 

1. The far-right in modern world history

Sandra Halperin

 

2. Globalization, crisis and right-wing populists in the Global South: the cases of India and Turkey

Şefika Kumral

 

 

3. Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy

Sue A. S. Iamamoto, Maíra Kubík Mano and Renata Summa

 

4. The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics

Inderjeet Parmar and Thomas Furse

 

5. The great moving Boris show: Brexit and the mainstreaming of the far right in Britain

Owen Worth

 

Epilogue: The Far-Right in a World Transformed?

Alexander Anievas and Richard Saull

Biography

Alexander Anievas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914-1945 (2014) and co-author of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitics Origins of Capitalism (2015).

 

Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the international history and politics of the far-right and is the author of Capital, Race and Space in two volumes (2023).