Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy

Mammone investigates the establishment, evolution, and international links of the extreme right in one of the main Western European areas.

Andrea Mammone (Author)

9781107030916, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 September 2015

320 pages, 4 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

This book describes the establishment, evolution, and international links of the extreme right in one of the main Western European areas. Andrea Mammone details the long journey in the development of right-wing extremism in France and Italy, emphasizing the transfer, exchange, and borrowing of ideals, personnel, and strategies, and the similarities among neofascist movements, activists, and thinkers across national boundaries from 1945 to the present day - including the Cold War years, the election of the European Parliament in 1979, and the 2014 EU elections. Mammone analyzes the adaptation of neofascism in society and politics; the building of international associations and pan-national networks; and the right-leaning responses to the defeat of fascism, European integration, decolonization, the events of 1968, immigration, and the recent EU-led austerity politics. As a book implicitly on space, borders, and belonging, it shows how some nationalisms may embody a transnational dimension and, at times, even pan-European stances.

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.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]