Beschreibung:
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 chapters cover a variety of theoretical and conceptual issues, including analyses of different geopolitical and national expressions of the contemporary far-right.
Introduction: The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right 1. The far-right in modern world history 2. Globalization, crisis and right-wing populists in the Global South: the cases of India and Turkey 3. Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy 4. The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics 5. The great moving Boris show: Brexit and the mainstreaming of the far right in Britain Epilogue: The Far-Right in a World Transformed?