Right-wing extremism has become a popular topic, attracting a large number of scholars. The success of scholarly forums like the Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy of the European Consortium of Political Science (ECPR), whose members come from more than 50 countries, confirms this. This volume focuses on the contemporary far Right in Europe and covers some neglected, yet fundamental, geo-political areas. With different methodological approaches, the contributors examine the far Right in an interdisciplinary perspective, reflecting recent developments and parties that are operating in a new globalized arena. They additionally uncover how the so-called Europeanization of national spaces is affecting the single domestic manifestations of many political phenomena as, for instance, the rise of ethno-regionalist movements (e.g. the Italian Northern League) as well as the migrationA" of racist cultures and movements across state borders.

- a very welcome addition to current studies on the extreme or radical right in Europe - all the chapters are of high quality, offering empirical case studies informed by current scholarly debates and theoretical frameworks - the case studies encompass western, eastern, northern and southern Europe, thereby providing a very solid overview of parties and movements across Europe.A" * Anna Bull, University of Bath

Andrea Mammone is Assistant Professor of Modern History in the Centre for Historical Record at Kingston University London (UK). He has authored research articles on fascism, the extreme Right, and collective memory, the latest of which have been published in Contemporary European History, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Studi Storici. He has co-edited, Italy Today. The Sick Man of Europe, a best-selling volume, translated into Italian. He is currently authoring a monograph on the transnational history of neo-fascism in France and Italy and editing a collection of essays on transnational and universal fascism. Emmanuel Godin is Principal Lecturer in French and European Studies in the School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth (UK). He works on French history, politics, and society, including the extreme Right, and religion and politics. He has co-authored, among others, France 1815-2003 (with Martin Evans), and has recently co-edited The French Exception? (with Tony Chafer) and France and the Mediterranean (with Natalya Vince). He is currently working on a monograph on France since the 1970s to be published by Reaktion book. Brian Jenkins was Senior Research Professor in the Department of French at the University of Leeds (UK) until 2009. He has written extensively on French nationalism and on theories of nationalism, notably as the author of Nationalism in France: Class and Nation since 1789 and as co-editor of Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe. Recently he has returned to the study of the French extreme Right between the world wars, editing France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right, and contributing to Le Mythe de l'Allergie Francaise au Fascisme (edited by Michel Dobry). He is co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Subject: Politics & Economics, Sociology, History