Far-right politics in Europe / Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
By: Camus, Jean-Yves [author.]
.Contributor(s): Lebourg, Nicolas [author.] | Todd, Jane Marie [translator.].Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017Description: 310 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674971530.Uniform titles: Droites extrêmes en Europe. English Subject(s): Right-wing extremists -- Europe | Political culture -- Europe | Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 320.533094 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 320.533094 CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014740 |
"This book was originally published as Les droites extrêmes en Europe © Éditions du Seuil, 2015"--Title page verso.
Introduction: How the far right came into being -- What to do after fascism? -- White power -- The new right in all its diversity -- Religious fundamentalism -- The populist parties -- What's new to the east? -- Conclusion: How the far right may cease to be.
In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far-right" is pejorative, used by liberals to tar these groups with the taint of fascism, Nazism, and other discredited ideologies. Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg's critical look at the far right throughout Europe--from the United Kingdom to France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and elsewhere--reveals a pre-history and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges these movements pose to the EU's liberal-democratic order. The European far right represents a confluence of many ideologies: nationalism, socialism, anti-Semitism, authoritarianism. In the first half of the twentieth century, the radical far right achieved its apotheosis in the regimes of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. But far-right movements have evolved significantly since 1945, as Far-Right Politics in Europe makes clear. The 1980s marked a turning point in political fortunes, as national-populist parties began winning seats in European parliaments. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a new wave has unfurled, one that is explicitly anti-immigrant and Islamophobic in outlook. Though Europe's far-right parties differ in important respects, they are motivated by a common sense of mission: to save their homelands from the corrosive effects of multiculturalism and globalization by creating a closed-off, ethnically homogeneous society. Members of these movements are increasingly determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means. In democracies across Europe, they are succeeding.-- Provided by publisher
Translated from French.