Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. 2 The Politics of Fear Revisited 11
5. Section 1: Consequences of Nationalism and Populism
6. 3 The Decline of the Occident: A Traditional Narrative of Nationalist Populism 25
7. 4 Populism in Russian Political Discourse 47
8. 5 Populism in the ANC and the 2019 Xenophobic Violence in South Africa 71
9. Section 2: Strategies of Nationalism and Populism
10. 6 “We are the streets and we are the law, the 4th Reich is what we are fighting for.” Four Decades of White Power Music in Germany: A Historical-Sociological Reconstruction 99
11. 7 The Germans as a Threat to ‘Us’? The Use of History and Othering of Germans in the Speeches of the Czech President Miloš Zeman 135
12. 8 Dog-Whistle Politics as a Strategy of American Nationalists and Populists: George Soros, the Rothschilds, and Other Conspiracy Theories 157
13. Section 3: Identity Questions in the 21st Century
14. 9 Nationalism, Populism, and Norwegian Historiography 191
15. 10 For the Sake of His Country: Henry Luce’s Nationalist-Populist Crusade to Forge “The American Century” 211
16. 11 Catholicism, Polish Victimhood, and Nationalist Histories in Partitioned and Contemporary Poland 235
17. 12 Populist Politics and the Rise of the AfD in Germany 253
18. 13 The Positive Role of Islam in Indian History and Nehru’s The Discovery of India 275
19. 14 Contributors 299