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 2011 rampage killing by Anders Brevik in Norway has stimulated broad interest in scholarship focusing on the radical right. Max Taylor has brought together a group of established and younger scholars in an anthology which approaches the topic from a uniquely global perspective.Extreme Right Wing Violence and Political Terrorismboth illuminates the changing nature of the radical right and provides a balanced analysis of the threat emanating from this milieu. This text is both timely and highly recommended.