ABSTRACT

This book provides a broad-ranging analysis of the global resurgence of right-wing forces in the twenty-first century.

These parties, organisations and social movements represent a break from right-wing forces in interwar political history in Europe and the United States, and the right-wing dictatorships in Latin America. The book reflects on the most appropriate conceptual categories to account for this phenomenon and whether terms such as populism, fascism, authoritarianism or conservatism can explain the new manifestations of the right. The book also explores this through a range of national case studies written by country specialists, focusing on Austria, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and the United States of America.

Providing a much-needed global perspective, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of populism, fascism, right-wing extremism and conservatism.

chapter 1|34 pages

Forty years of radical right-wing populism

An assessment

chapter 2|13 pages

Neoliberal totalitarianism 1

chapter 3|23 pages

Populism

Uses, abuses and travels of an uncomfortable concept 1

chapter 5|25 pages

Latin American neo-patriot far-right

Between the crisis of globalisation and regional political processes 1

chapter 6|15 pages

The marginalisation of neo-fascist ideologies in Europe

The traditional extreme right in the postmodern era 1

chapter 8|12 pages

The right in Italy

Awaiting the day of reckoning

chapter 9|25 pages

The Spanish post-fascist right

The unique case of Vox 1

chapter 11|21 pages

Bolsonaro in Brazil

To the right of the right 1

chapter 12|20 pages

The right turn as a process, not an assault

The Ecuadorian case, 2007–2019 1

chapter 13|15 pages

The stillborn revolution

The failure of right-wing populism in the United States

chapter |11 pages

Epilogue

Right and left in a post-Covid-19 world