Morbid symptoms : the global rise of the far-right

“As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right’s growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives. Morbid Symptoms examines the far-right’s ascendancy, uniquely tracing its history from the end of the Cold War, revealing how its different dimensions have led to a series of contradictory strategies and positions that often leave their overall significance unclear. From the United States to Russia and from Britain across Europe to Greece, Owen Worth’s analysis reveals that the left’s failure to mount a radical alternative to the prevailing order has allowed the far-right to move in and provide an avenue for discontent and for change. Crucially though this avenue hasn’t necessarily offered a definite alternative to the status quo as yet, meaning there is still a chance to change its significance in the wider global order. This is an essential primer to the future of international politics and international relations.” "As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right's growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.Morbid Symptoms examines the far-right's ascendancy, uniquely tracing its history from the end of the Cold War, revealing how its different dimensions have led to a series of contradictory strategies and positions that often leave their overall significance unclear. From the United States to Russia and from Britain across Europe to Greece, Owen Worth's analysis reveals that the left's failure to mount a radical alternative to the prevailing order has allowed the far-right to move in and provide an avenue for discontent and for change. Crucially though this avenue hasn't necessarily offered a definite alternative to the status quo as yet, meaning there is still a chance to change its significance in the wider global order. This is an essential primer to the future of international politics and international relations." -- Provided by publisher As established centrist parties across the Western world continue to decline, commentators continue to fail to account for the far-right?s growth, for its strategies and its overall objectives.0'Morbid Symptoms' examines the far-right?s ascendancy, uniquely tracing its history from the end of the Cold War, revealing how its different dimensions have led to a series of contradictory strategies and positions that often leave their overall significance unclear. From the United States to Russia and from Britain across Europe to Greece, Owen Worth?s analysis reveals that the left?s failure to mount a radical alternative to the prevailing order has allowed the far-right to move in and provide an avenue for discontent and for change. Crucially though this avenue hasn?t necessarily offered a definite alternative to the status quo as yet, meaning there is still a chance to change its significance in the wider global order.0 'Morbid Symptoms provides a novel, interesting and timely analysis of the contemporary far-right. It is an impressive work of scholarship.' George Hawley, author of The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know 'Thoughtful and very timely. It captures much of what is contradictory in the relationship between the politics of the far right and neoliberal world order.' Richard Saull, Queen Mary University of London 'A much-needed historical and economic perspective to the study of present-day extremism.' Michael Wendling, author of Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House Machine generated contents note: One.Against the New World Order -- Two.Gathering Momentum: The Fallout from 9/11 and the Global Financial Crisis -- Three.The Far-Right in Europe -- Four.The Far-Right in the US -- Five.The Far-Right in Britain -- Six.Consolidation and Mainstreaming Traces the rise of far-right across the western world since the end of the Cold War, to reveal a global view of the movement's often contradictory strategies and positions.