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In this second volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the Western far-right from the end of World War II to its contemporary manifestations in Trumpism and Brexit. Focusing on its international causal dimensions, Saull draws on the theory of uneven and combined development to provide a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and mutations of the ‘post-fascist’ far-right.
Despite the transformed geopolitical context of capitalist development after 1945 – with decolonization and the end inter-imperial rivalry – the far-right continued to be intimately connected to the consolidation of the anti-communist liberal order. Thereafter, the far-right also formed an important, if contradictory, element within the neoliberal historical bloc that emerged in the 1980s and has been the main ideo-political beneficiary of the 2007-8 neoliberal crisis.
Volumes I and II of Capital, Race and Space were shortlisted for the 2024 BISA IPEG book prize (for best book published in the field of IPE in 2023), and subsequently recognised by the IPEG Book Prize Committee as Highly Commended. The shortlisted books represent the very best of IPE scholarship, cutting across disciplinary boundaries and addressing timely topics.
Despite the transformed geopolitical context of capitalist development after 1945 – with decolonization and the end inter-imperial rivalry – the far-right continued to be intimately connected to the consolidation of the anti-communist liberal order. Thereafter, the far-right also formed an important, if contradictory, element within the neoliberal historical bloc that emerged in the 1980s and has been the main ideo-political beneficiary of the 2007-8 neoliberal crisis.
Volumes I and II of Capital, Race and Space were shortlisted for the 2024 BISA IPEG book prize (for best book published in the field of IPE in 2023), and subsequently recognised by the IPEG Book Prize Committee as Highly Commended. The shortlisted books represent the very best of IPE scholarship, cutting across disciplinary boundaries and addressing timely topics.
Price: $208.00
Pages: 430
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date:
15 June 2023
ISBN: 9789004539501
Format: Hardcover
"Capital, Race and Space represents an ambitious piece of scholarship, analysing the far right in the longue durée, from French Revolution to the present day. Speaking to multiple areas of IPE and other fields, the book contends that the liberal state has developed in tandem with, and has been at key times of crisis reliant upon, the far right. It employs in particular the concept of uneven and combined development (within a rich and sophisticated theoretical framework), which is used to explore the often overlooked importance of the international dimension in generating the far right. The book is fascinating, highly pertinent to the present day and convincingly argued."
- The IPEG Book Prize Committee of the British International Studies Association, 2024 (see the International Political Economy Working Group 2024 Book Prize announcement)
- The IPEG Book Prize Committee of the British International Studies Association, 2024 (see the International Political Economy Working Group 2024 Book Prize announcement)
Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the history and politics of the far-right and is co-editor of The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (2015).