Trouble on the Far Right: Contemporary Right-Wing Strategies and Practices in Europe

In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of far-right actors, the present volume explores this right-ward shift of European publics and politics. It assembles analyses of changing mobilization patterns and their effects on the local, national and transnational level. International experts, among them Tamir Bar-On, Liz Fekete, Matthew Kott, and Graham Macklin, scrutinize new forms of coalition building, mainstreaming and transnationalization tendencies as aspects of diversified far-right politics in Europe.

Cover -- Content -- Trouble … -- … To Begin With -- Trouble on the Far Right Introductory Remarks -- Europe's Far Right in Flux -- … At The Ballot Box -- No One-Trick Ponies The Multifaceted Appeal of the Populist Radical Right -- The Far Right in Austria Small on the Streets, Big in Parliament -- The Turning Fortunes of Romania's Far Right The Rise and Fall of Greater Romania Party -- Svoboda and the Restructuring of Ukrainian Nationalism -- … On The Street -- Don't Call Me Right! The Strategy of Normalization in German Right-Wing Extremism -- On Patrol with the New German Vigilantes -- CasaPound Italia The Fascist Hybrid -- Who are 'They'? Continuities and Changes in the Discourse of CasaPound Italia on Migration and Otherness -- What's in the Mind of the Neo-Nazi Next Door? A Personal Reflection on the Rise and Persistence of Golden Dawn in Greece -- … Over Cultural Hegemony -- Preparing for (Intellectual) Civil War The New Right in Austria and Germany -- The Strategy of the French Identitaires Entering Politics through the Media -- Arguing with the Nouvelle Droite Substantive Debate, Partisan Polemics or Truth-Seeking? -- Black Sheep in a Far-Right Zoo? Fethullah Gülen's Strategy of 'Non-Violence' -- Women and their Rights in the Nationalists' Strategies Abortion as a Contentious Issue in the Polish 'Culture War' -- … Underground -- A Warfare Mindset Right-Wing Extremism and 'Counter-State Terror' as a Threat for Western Democracies -- Right Wing Terrorism and Hate Crime in the UK A Historical Perspective -- … Within -- Patterns of Far-Right and Anti-Muslim Mobilization in the United Kingdom -- But - Where Do These People Come From? The (Re)Emergence of Radical Nationalism in Finland -- The Far Right in Latvia Should We Be Worried? -- The Achilles' Heel of Bulgaria's Patriotic Front.

Cover -- Content -- Trouble … -- … To Begin With -- Trouble on the Far Right Introductory Remarks -- Europe's Far Right in Flux -- … At The Ballot Box -- No One-Trick Ponies The Multifaceted Appeal of the Populist Radical Right -- The Far Right in Austria Small on the Streets, Big in Parliament -- The Turning Fortunes of Romania's Far Right The Rise and Fall of Greater Romania Party -- Svoboda and the Restructuring of Ukrainian Nationalism -- … On The Street -- Don't Call Me Right! The Strategy of Normalization in German Right-Wing Extremism -- On Patrol with the New German Vigilantes

In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of far-right actors, the present volume explores this right-ward shift of European publics and politics. It assembles analyses of changing mobilization patterns and their effects on the local, national and transnational level. International experts, among them Tamir Bar-On, Liz Fekete, Matthew Kott, and Graham Macklin, scrutinize new forms of coalition building, mainstreaming and transnationalization tendencies as aspects of diversified far-right politics in Europe