Far-Right Politics in Europe - Couverture rigide

Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674971531 ISBN 13 : 9780674971530

Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2017

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 prehistory 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.

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Revue de presse

A fascinating and comprehensive study that follows more than a century of the history of far-right movements in Western Europe as they transform or die and argues that there are no prepackaged essences to them. I cannot imagine a better way to understand the current field than to read this book. --John Bowen, author of Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space

"As befits the authors national context, their French examples are excellent particularly regarding the development of the Front National over the past generation, and in their analysis of the more culturalist, metapolitical agenda of Nouvelle Droite intellectuals [...] Camus and Lebourg also handle the far Right s approach to racial difference skillfully. --Times Higher Education

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Belknap Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0674971531
• ISBN 13: 9780674971530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320