Extreme Right - Freedom and Security At Risk

This book, offering a historical-sociological account of right-wing extremist movements in American history, seeks to identify threats to freedom and security, assess the responses to such threats, and suggest some means of dealing with the potential dangers.

List of contents

Introduction -- Right-Wing Extremism: In Search of a Definition -- Canada: Right-Wing Extremism in the Peaceable Kingdom -- Right-Wing Extremism in the United States -- The Extreme Right in the United Kingdom and France -- Contemporary Right-Wing Extremism in Germany -- The Incomplete Revolutions: The Rise of Extremism in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union -- Russia: The Land Inbetween -- Poland: The Vanguard of Change -- Hungary: From “Goulash Communism” to Pluralistic Democracy -- The Internationalization of the Extreme Right -- Conclusions -- Appendix: List of Research Interviews -- About the Book

About the author

Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. Aurel Braun is professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. Stephen Scheinberg is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.

Summary

This volume examines the threats to freedom and security posed by right-wing extremism in established democracies and by the blend of left-and right-wing extremism in post-communist states. Providing a theoretical framework, the contributors develop tools for recognizing the dangers of extremism.

Product details

• Authors: Aurel Braun, Braun Aurel, Stephen Scheinberg
• Assisted by: Aurel Braun (Editor), Editor (Editor), Editors (Editor), Stephen Scheinberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.1996
• EAN: 9780813331515
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3151-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements