CRWS Books

The Radical Right in Eastern Europe: Democracy under Siege?

Michael Minkenberg
2017

Michael Minkenberg - This book provides a timely account of recent radical right movements, political parties, electoral competition, and governance in Eastern Europe, incorporates quantitative and qualitative data, drawing on perspectives form comparative and historical sociology, electoral research, and analysis of public opinion trend, and offers a historical analysis of key conditions and legacies that have impacted and shaped the current nature of democracies in Eastern Europe.

Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

Jeffrey S. Kopstein
Jason Wittenberg
2018

By Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg - Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogroms in 1941, and most ordinary gentiles never attacked Jews.

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Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present

Dylan Riley
2022

By Dylan Riley. Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society—and social theory—in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed ‘enforced contemplation’. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. Microverses analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump’s last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the...

The Master Plan ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Brian Fishman
2016

Brian Fishman - Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda’s operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis to conquer the world by 2020 that included reestablishing the Caliphate in Syria between 2013 and 2016. Despite a massive schism between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, al-Adl’s plan has proved remarkably prescient. In summer 2014, ISIS declared itself the Caliphate after capturing Mosul, Iraq—part of stage five in al-Adl’s plan. Drawing on...

Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism

Lawrence Rosenthal
2020

By Lawrence Rosenthal - Since Trump's victory and the UK's Brexit vote, much of the commentary on the populist epidemic has focused on the emergence of populism. But, Lawrence Rosenthal argues, what is happening globally is not the emergence but the transformation of right-wing populism.

Rosenthal, the founder of UC Berkeley's Center for Right-Wing Studies, suggests right-wing populism is a protean force whose prime mover is the resentment felt toward perceived cultural elites, and whose abiding feature is its ideological flexibility, which now takes the form of...

Neo-nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

By John Aubrey Douglass - Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist turn inward among a key group of nation-states often led by demagogues that includes China and Hong Kong, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In many parts of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for...

Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality

Paola Bacchetta
Sunaina Maira
Howard Winant
2018

Paola Bacchetta - Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism; and investigate the dynamic forces propelling anti-racist solidarity and resistance cultures. Midway through the Trump years and with a rise in nativism fervor across the globe, this expanded approach captures the creativity and variety found in the fight against...

The New Nationalism and the First World War

Lawrence Rosenthal
Vesna Rodic
2014

Lawrence Rosenthal - The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the global-scale conflict that was the First World War.

The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

Cynthia Miller-Idriss
2017

Cynthia Miller-Idriss - The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people―in other words, that have made the extreme more mainstream. In this book, Cynthia Miller-Idriss examines how extremist ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols...

European Islamophobia Report 2017

Enes Bayrakli
Farid Hafez, Eds
2018

Enes Bayrakli -This is the third issue of the annual European Islamophobia Report (Eır) consisting of an overall evaluation of Islamophobia in Europe in the year 2017, as well as 34 country reports which include almost all EU member states and additional countries such as Russia and Norway. This year’s Eır represents the work of 42 prominent scholars and civil society activists from various European countries. The denial of the very existence of Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism/anti-Muslim hate crime in Europe by many demonstrates the need for an appropriate effort...