The Far-Right in World Politics

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Alexander Anievas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945 (2014) and co-author of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitics Origins of Capitalism (2015).

Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the international history and politics of the far-right and is the author of Capital, Race and Space in two volumes (2023).

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This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South. The chapters cover a variety of theoretical and conceptual issues, including analyses of different geopolitical and national expressions of the contemporary far-right.

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Introduction: The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right 1. The far-right in modern world history 2. Globalization, crisis and right-wing populists in the Global South: the cases of India and Turkey 3. Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy 4. The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics 5. The great moving Boris show: Brexit and the mainstreaming of the far right in Britain Epilogue: The Far-Right in a World Transformed?