Extreme right wing political violence and terrorism / edited by Max Taylor, Donald Holbrook and P.M. Currie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Currie, P. M., editor.

Holbrook, Donald, editor.

Taylor, Max, editor.

Series:

New directions in terrorism studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence.

Right-wing extremists.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this collection, senior experts explore all aspects of extreme right wing political violence, from the nature of the threat, processes of engagement, and ideology to the lessons that can be drawn from exiting such engagement. Further, right wing activism and political violence are compared with Jihadi violence and engagement."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Violence by the far right : the American experience

Anti-Muslim violence in the UK : extremist nationalist involvement and influence

Grassroots activism in the English Defence League : discourse and public (dis)order

Ulster loyalism and extreme right wing politics

The Dutch far right : from 'classical outsiders' to 'modern insiders'

Youth engagement in right wing extremism : comparative cases from the Netherlands

Right wing political violence in France : stock take and perspectives

Breivik's mindset : the counterjihad and the new transatlantic anti-Muslim right

Still blind in the right eye? A comparison of German responses to political violence from the extreme left and the extreme right

Far right and Islamist extremist discourses : shifting patterns of enmity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9781441101839

1441101837

9781501300967

1501300962

9781441140876

1441140875

OCLC:

866442919