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The European extreme right

Mark McGlashan (Lancaster): The Branding of European Nationalism: Perpetuation and Novelty in Racist Symbolism. Vidhya Ramalingam (Oxford): The Sweden Democrats: Anti-Immigration Politics under the Stigma of Racism. Robert A. Kahn (St. Thomas): Who’s the Fascist? Uses of the Nazi Past at the Geert Wilders Trial. Sean Hanley (UCL): Getting the Right Right: Redefining the Centre-Right In Post-Communist Europe. A review of Mapping Extreme Right Ideology: An Empirical Geography of the European Extreme Right by Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter. "Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is": One year ago, Anders Behring appeared on the beach of a youth summer camp in Norway; as told by the survivors, these are the beat-by-beat horrors of those terrifying 198 minutes. At the moment of the Macedonian nation's greatest victory, independence, "the name issue became the new symbol of our defeat"; predictably enough, those in Macedonia to benefit were the nationalist Right, thus confirming Greek fears.