Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK.

Giovanna Campani is Professor of Intercultural Education, Gender Anthropology and Intercultural Communication, University of Florence, Italy.

Annie Benveniste is a Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences as well as for the Masters on Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8, France.

1. Introduction: The Concept and Its Definitions; GiovannaCampani, Gabriella Lazaridis and Annie Benveniste.- 2.Neo fascism, from the XXth Century to the Third Millennium: the Case of Italy; GiovannaCampani.- 3. FarRight Movements in France: the Chief Role of National Front and the Rise ofIslamophobia; Annie Benveniste and Etienne Pingaud.- 4. HegemonicDiscourse of Difference and Inequality: Right-wing organizations in Austria; BirgitSauer and Edma Ajanovic.- 5. Right Wing Populism in Denmark: People, Nation andWelfare in the Construction of the 'Other'; Birte Siim and Susi Meret.- 6. Populism in Slovenian Context between Ethno-nationalism and Re-traditionalization;Mojca Pajnik, Roman Kuhar and Iztok Sori.- 7. The Post-communist Rise of National Populism: Bulgarianparadoxes; Anna Krasteva.- 8. Posing for Legitimacy?:Identity and Praxis of Far Right Populism in Greece; Gabriella Lazaridis andVasiliki Tsagkroni.- 9. Majority Identitarian Populism in Britain; GabriellaLazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni

The results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark's Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia's Slovenska demokratska stranka, France's Front National, Greece's Golden Dawn, the United Kingdom Independence Party, Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement in Italy and the Austrian FPÖ, has been perceived as a political wave which is transforming the face of the European Parliament, and challenging at some level the hegemony of the 'big four' well-established European political forces that lead the Strasbourg's assembly: the ALDE, EPP, S&D and Greens/ALE.

This international volume combines extensive transnational comparative data analysis, as well as research at discursive, attitudinal and behavioural levels.