As Europe enters a significant phase of re-integration of East and West, it faces an increasing problem with the rise of far-right political parties. Cas Mudde offers the first comprehensive and truly pan-European study of populist radical right parties in Europe. He focuses on the parties themselves, discussing them both as dependent and independent variables. Based upon a wealth of primary and secondary literature, this book offers critical and original insights into three major aspects of European populist radical right parties: concepts and classifications; themes and issues; and explanations for electoral failures and successes. It concludes with a discussion of the impact of radical right parties on European democracies, and vice versa, and offers suggestions for future research.

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Populist radical right parties in Europe

Acknowledgements Part I. Defining Social Darwinism: Introduction: the identity of Social Darwinism 1. Defining Social Darwinism 2. The distinctiveness of Social Darwinism Part II. Pioneers: 3. The emergence of Social Darwinism 4. Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution 5. Social Darwinism in the USA 6. Social Darwinism in France and Germany Part III. Case Studies: 7. Reform Darwinism 8. Races, nations and the struggle for existence 9. The eugenic conscience 10. Social Darwinism, nature and sexual difference 11. Nazism, Fascism and Social Darwinism Postscript: Social Darwinism old and new: the case of sociobiology Bibliography.

Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat

There is a scene in the Marx Brothers’ film Duck Soup which never fails to leave a profound impression on the audience. The President of ‘Freedonia’, played by Groucho, is pursuing Harpo who is a foreign agent, and has succeeded in infiltrating the palace disguised as his double. Harpo is cornered beside an open doorway and is about to be captured when he decides to turn his disguise into a new means of escape. He goes into a routine in which he literally plays Groucho’s double, copying every gesture in perfect synchrony to create the optical illusion that the doorway is a mirror, and the President is merely watching his own reflection in it. The silent dance continues for some time with Groucho trying to catch his double out of step, by freezing or making an unpredictable movement, until finally the illusion is shattered when each changes places with the other by stepping through the mirror, at which point the chase begins once more.

The Perversions of Inheritance: Studies in the Making of Multi-Racist Britain

The Politics of Unreason

Introduction: on the extreme right and transnational history 1. Nations and fascisms 2. Regenerating right-wing extremism 3. The impact of the Algerian years 4. 1968 and the response of political fronts 5. Culture after 1968 6. From the Euro right to a Euro leader Afterword: on the recent old Europe.

Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy

Introduction. 1. The Strange Death of Liberal England (1900-1914). 2. The First World War (1914-1918). 3. John Bull's Other Island (1910-1923). 4. Reds in the Bed (1917-1939). 5. The March of the Blackshirts (1923-1939). 6. The Second World War (1939-1945). 7. The Cold War (1945-1989). 8. Pushing and Shoving (1958-1993). 9. The Orange and the Green (1968-1993). Conclusion. Index.

The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century

The message of encouragement, in difficult times, with which Mosley raised the morale of embattled members of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1938, is still remembered as a clarion call by the 'Friends of OM', the last flickering ember of the sacred flame. At no time was it more needed by the faithful than in 1945, but the full story behind Mosley's return to politics, and the extent to which he remained within a fascist perspective, has still to be written. The release of Home Office files on Mosley's political activities between 1945 and 1948, and the papers of Robert Saunders at the University of Sheffield, however, have provided much interesting new material to assess Mosley's attempted political resurrection after the second world war.1 John Hope has argued that the Union Movement acted as a transmission belt between preand postwar British fascism. He points to the significance of the internment camps in the second world war, from which new leaders emerged, who were to play an important role in the revival of neo-fascism in Britain after 1945.2 This is an interesting argument, but fascism was an interwar phenomenon and many were devastated by internment. Only the most committed wished to revive the tradition in a new form of nostalgic, mimetic or neo-fascism after the war.3 Why Mosley tried to adapt his fascism to the new realities, in a political climate well symbolized by the deep freeze of the winter of 1947, is the main focus of this article. The key to Mosley's return to politics, despite his realization that he would be regarded as a political flat-earther, was provided in an interview he gave to

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The Guardian of the 'Sacred Flame': The Failed Political Resurrection of Sir Oswald Mosley after 1945

MI5: The First Ten Years, 1909–1919 CD Rom (Kew: Public Record Office,1998) £99 + VAT individual, £150 + VAT institutional. ISBN 1–873162 ‐1–0. MI5: The First Ten Years, 1909–1919 (Kew: Public Record Office,1997). Pp.iv + 35. £3.99 ISBN 1–873162–52–9. I.C. Curry, The Security Service (Kew: Public Record Office, 1999). Pp.442, illus., bibliog., index. £50. ISBN 1–873162–79–0.

The charm offensive: The ‘coming out’ of MI5

Part 1: visions of British Fascism the horse's mouth the greater Britain. Part 2: the birth of British Fascism conservative Fascism and the "Jew Wise" membership and organisation of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) fascist thugs? a storm in a teacup? anti-Semitism and the BUF "Mosley and Peace"."Mind Britain's Business" the fifth column? internment phoenix from the flames Mosley's failed political resurrection 1945-66 old timers and new brooms 1945-66 the age of John Tyndall 1967-99

Richard C. Thurlow

Papers

The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century

The Guardian of the 'Sacred Flame': The Failed Political Resurrection of Sir Oswald Mosley after 1945

The charm offensive: The ‘coming out’ of MI5

Fascism in modern Britain

The Evolution of the Mythical British Fifth Column, 1939–46