Extreme Right Wing Political Violence and Terrorism

Donald Holbrook is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.

• ContributorsAcknowledgements1 IntroductionDonald Holbrook and Max Taylor 2 Violence by the Far Right: The American ExperienceLeonard Weinberg3 Anti-Muslim Violence in the UK: Extremist Nationalist Involvement and InfluenceRobert Lambert4 Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League: Discourse and Public (Dis)orderJoel Busher5 Ulster Loyalism and Extreme Right Wing PoliticsJames W. McAuley6 The Dutch Far Right: From ‘Classical Outsiders’ to ‘Modern Insiders’Rob Witte7 Youth Engagement in Right Wing Extremism: Comparative Cases from the NetherlandsIneke van der Valk8 Right Wing Political Violence in France: Stock Take and PerspectivesMichel Gandilhon9 Breivik’s Mindset: The Counterjihad and the New Transatlantic Anti-Muslim RightToby Archer10 Still Blind in the Right Eye? A Comparison of German Responses to Political Violence from the Extreme Left and the Extreme RightPeter Lehr11 Far Right and Islamist Extremist Discourses: Shifting Patterns of EnmityDonald Holbrook12 ConclusionPM CurrieBibliographyIndex

“The editors and authors included in this book make a real contribution to our knowledge by illustrating how small groups dedicated to right-wing terrorism and violence have evolved into political movements. Leonard Weinberg’s essay on right-wing political activity in the United States usefully divides the spectrum into a populist right based on movements like the Tea Party and a revolutionary right based on racism and fixation on a coming racial apocalypse. Weinberg correctly divides political movements that are geared to winning actual electoral battles from those aimed at (by discourse, at least) overthrow of the existing political order. This book is a most worthwhile read. The topic is an alarming one, and the comparative focus of the book shows just how alarming it is. Seeing the similarities and differences between rising populist right-wing movements and their revolutionary counterparts was both interesting and enlightening.”