Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US

Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US
Edited by Sabine von Mering, Timothy Wyman McCarty

To Be Published 24th May 2013 by Routledge – 210 pages

Series: Extremism and Democracy

Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US.

Timothy Wyman McCarty is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US. His research and teaching focuses on political theory, the history of ideas, and literature and politics.

This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include:

• Who joins radical right parties and why?
• Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe
• The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives
• How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movement

This will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.

Contents

• Introduction Sabine von Mering & Timothy Wyman McCarty
• Globalized Anti-Globalists. The Ideological Basis of the Internationalization of Right-Wing Extremism Thomas Grumke
• Right-Wing Extremism and Populism in Contemporary Germany and Western Europe Hans-Gert Jaschke
• National Solidarity—No to Globalization. The Economic and Sociopolitical Platform of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke
• Extreme Right Activists: Recruitment and Experiences Bert Klandermans
• A Comparative Look at Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Semitism, and Xenophobic Hate Crime in Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia Joachim Kersten and Natalia Hankel
• Welfare Chauvinism, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Conditions for the Electoral Breakthrough of Radical Right Parties: Evidence from Eastern Europe Lenka Bustikova
• From Tea Parties to Militias: Between the Republican Party and the Insurgent Ultra-Right In the United States Chip Berlet
• Cycles of Right-Wing Terror in the United States Peter Simi
• Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf – A Book of the Past in the Present Othmar Plöckinger
• Afterword Kathleen Blee