In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's
National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as
far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label.
More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to tar
these groups with the taint of Fascism, Nazism, and other
discredited ideologies. Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg's
critical look at the far right throughout Europe-from the United
Kingdom to France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and elsewhere-reveals a
prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest
and warns of the challenges these movements pose to the EU's
liberal-democratic order. The European far right represents a
confluence of many ideologies: nationalism, socialism,
anti-Semitism, authoritarianism. In the first half of the twentieth
century, the radical far right achieved its apotheosis in the
regimes of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. But these movements have
evolved significantly since 1945, as Far-Right Politics in Europe
makes clear. The 1980s marked a turning point in political
fortunes, as national-populist parties began winning seats in
European parliaments. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the
United States, a new wave has unfurled, one that is explicitly
anti-immigrant and Islamophobic in outlook. Though Europe's
far-right parties differ in important respects, they are motivated
by a common sense of mission: to save their homelands from what
they view as the corrosive effects of multiculturalism and
globalization by creating a closed-off, ethnically homogeneous
society. Members of these movements are increasingly determined to
gain power through legitimate electoral means. In democracies
across Europe, they are succeeding.
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