Embedded Autocracy: Hungary in the European Union considers the new Hungarian autocracy as a political regime that is deeply entrenched in the make-up of Hungarian society. The deterioration of the social conditions of democracy did not begin in 2010, when Viktor Orban came to power, so it cannot be reduced to a leadership issue only. Andras ......
Exclusionary notions of American national identity have been endemic since the country's founding. Since the Culture Wars, they have returned with vengeance. One of their champions is a new generation of tech savvy activists known as the Alt-Right. This is a movement that embraces a vision of America that is unapologetically white and Christian ......
The book focuses on the destructive politics of Trump and Trumpism expressed as extreme forms of hate and violence. It explains how these destructive politics are actually rooted in various institutions. Trump and Trumpism amplify this institutional and ideological expression of destructive politics that is intended to cause harm to various social ......
This book examines North Korea's foreign relations under Kim Jong-un. It focuses on how the North Korean regime manages the relations to meet its survival needs.
This book presents the thought of the Kyoto School in comparison with continental philosophers better known in the West and addresses the affiliation of some of its members with the militarism of the 1930s and 1940s.
Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador
This book explores the most important Latin American political phenomenon to emerge in the twenty-first century: democratic governments have become autocratic governments not by military coups but by politicians manipulating the system after a fair election. Through five countries, the book examines this new generation of Latin American dictators.
During the Nazi regime in Germany, all police forces were centralised under the command of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The political police (Gestapo), the criminal police (Kripo), and the security service (SD) were all brought together under the RSHA umbrella in 1939, commanded by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. Using RSHA in Berlin as the ......
This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.
Ideological Currents from Interwar Canada to Contemporary Chile
The literature on the right and the radical right has a largely Euro-American bias, limited by partisan academics focusing on the left. The Right and Radical Right in the Americas hopes to be a pioneering work that examines the history and contemporary manifestations of the right and radical right throughout the Americas.