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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.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Zed Books
- Publish Date: Nov 23rd, 2019
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781786993342
- Categories: • Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism• Schools - Levels - Higher• LGBTQ+ Studies - General
About the Author
Worth, Owen: - Owen Worth is Lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Praise for this book
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 and addresses some of the key questions, not only in terms of how we explain the rise of the far-right, but how the left/progressive forces should respond to it.
Dr Richard Saull, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Richard Saull, Queen Mary University of London
Morbid Symptomsprovides 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 Need to Know
George Hawley, author of The Alt-Right: What Everyone Need to Know
Owen Worth provides a much-needed historical and economic perspective to the study of present-day extremism. By lucidly tracing the differences and, importantly, the similarities to the development of and themes pushed by the far-right across the Western world, this book provides a useful guide to the emerging transnational nationalism. Without succumbing to the more dramatic and hysterical predictions for the future, Morbid Symptomsidentifies the political danger of recent developments and, most intriguingly, hints at possible solutions.
Michael Wendling, author of Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House
Michael Wendling, author of Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House