Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule

António Costa Pinto is a professor of politics at Lusofona University, Campus of Lisbon and a research professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon. His research interests include fascism, democratisation and political elites. Recent publications include: Looking for An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism. Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (2021).Goffredo Adinolfi is a research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon. His research interests are mainly focused on anti-liberal thought, fascism and populism. He is the author of The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919–1924) (2025).

• 1. Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule. Towards a Global OverviewAntonio Costa Pinto2. Hácha’s Protectorate. Limping Corporatism and Calibrated Collaboration in Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi RuleRadka Šustrová3. ‘Hitler Gave the Slovaks a State’: On the Fascistization of Christian Nationalism and Social Catholicism in Tiso’s Slovakia, 1939–1942Miloslav Szabó4. "Not to recognise oneself as a serf is the worst of servitudes." Marshall Pétain as a dictator, July 1940-August 1944 Marc-Olivier Baruch5. Norway under Vidkun Quisling: ‘Not guilty!’Stein U. Larsen6. The short-lived national-socialist Arrow-Cross government in Hungary: imported Fascism vs. local conservatism?Catherine Horel7. The Ustasha Regime, State, and Nation-Building Process. State ‘Independence’ in the Axis ‘New Order’Goran Miljan8. The Nedić Regime in Occupied Serbia. Conflicting Loyalties and AimsRastko Lompar9. Building a puppet state: Italian Occupation and collaboration in Albania, 1939-1943Enriketa Pandelejmoni10. The Italian Social Republic. Legitimation Struggles and Unfulfilled VisionsGoffredo Adinolfi11.State (dis)continuity in occupied Greece: regimes of emergencyAristotle Kallis12. Ideology and control: Instruments of authoritarianism in Japanese ManchuriaThomas David DuBois13. From Constitutional Mirage to Party Hegemony: Building the Wang Jingwei Regime in Japanese-Occupied China (1939–1942)David Serfass