Ruth Wodak (Lancaster): The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean. From New Left Review, after years of economic crisis and social protest, the cartel parties of the extreme centre now face a challenge to their dominance from outside-left forces in a number of Western countries. The Far Right is weaselling into the mainstream, dressed up in suits. A terror attack, then Far Right moves in. How far is Europe swinging to the right? Austerity is undermining a common European identity — will fascism result? The introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Modern European History on “fascist temporalities”. What does an anti-Semitic party look like in Europe today? As Britain debates antisemitism and the left, support for populist right-wing parties using hardline anti-Semitic messages is growing across the continent.
Jakub Dymek on Poland’s rightward turn (and more). Jan-Werner Muller goes behind the new German Right. A review of Wunschdenken (“Wishful Thinking”) by Thilo Sarrazin. Austria’s mainstream parties long believed they could keep the far right under control — what went wrong? Austria Far Right thwarted, Van der Bellen elected president. Austria’s right-wing populism reflects anti-Muslim platform of Donald Trump. What can Europe’s Far Right tell us about Trump’s rise? Farai Chideya investigates. David Lewis on Carl Schmitt, the Nazi-era philosopher who wrote blueprint for New Authoritarianism.
You can download The European Far Right: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Giorgos Charalambous (2015). You can download The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State by Antonio Costa Pinto (2000).
