Introduction: Marlene Laruelle
Chapter 1: Dangerous Liaisons? Eurasianism, European Far Right, and
Putin’s Russia, Marlene Laruelle
Part I: Alexander Dugin’s Trajectory: Mediating European Far Right
to Russia
Chapter 2: Alexander Dugin and the West European New Right,
1989–1994, Anton Shekhovtsov
Chapter 3: Moscow State University’s Department of Sociology and
the Climate of Opinion in Post-Soviet Russia, Vadim Rossman
Part II: France, Italy, and Spain: Dugin’s European Cradles
Chapter 4: A Long-Lasting Friendship. Alexander Dugin and the
French Radical Right, Jean-Yves Camus
Chapter 5: From Evola to Dugin: The Neo-Eurasianist Connection in
Italy, Giovanni Savino
Chapter 6: Arriba Eurasia? The Difficult Establishment of
Neo-Eurasianism in Spain, Nicolas Lebourg
Part III: Turkey, Hungary, and Greece: Dugin’s New Conquests
Chapter 7: “Failed Exodus”: Dugin’s Networks in Turkey, Vügar
İmanbeyli
Chapter 8: Deciphering Eurasianism in Hungary: Narratives,
Networks, and Lifestyles, Umut Korkut and Emel Akçali
Chapter 9: The Dawning of Europe and Eurasia? The Greek Golden Dawn
and its Transnational Links, Sofia Tipaldou
Part IV: Conclusions: The European Far Right at Moscow’s
Service?
Chapter 10: Far-Right Election Observation Monitors in the Service
of the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy, Anton Shekhovtsov
Marlene Laruelle is associate director at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) and research professor of international affairs at George Washington University.
This is a timely and topical collection of research. . . .[The
articles] provide the reader with an interesting snapshot of the
current political relationships between the Russian state,
Eurasianist proponents, and specific far right circles. . . .The
shifting of international politics into a distinctively multi-polar
phase guarantees the ongoing importance of Russia as an
international actor and we need to keep developing our analysis of
its behaviour. This includes being aware of weak critiques of it as
either a fascist, or anti-imperialist state. This book is useful in
delving into this through an oblique angle, its relationship with
its own indigenous far right movements.
*Actually Existing Barbarism*
Against this sad background, the appearance of this volume, edited
by Marlene Laruelle, perhaps the world’s foremost researcher of
neo- and classical Eurasianism, is highly welcomed. Laruelle’s
essay collection is especially valuable as it combines a wide range
of specific topics with particularly rich descriptive case
analyses. . . .This volume’s collection compiled by Laruelle fills
a whole number of gaps in the mosaic of Russia’s increasing
integration into transnational extreme-right-wing networks. These
well-researched papers provide…sufficient starting points for more
directed research into specific episodes in neo-Eurasianism’s
relationship to the countries covered here. . . .Laruelle and her
authors are to be congratulated for having, with this outstanding
volume, given a crucial impulse to the emergence of a new
sub-discipline of Russian nationalism studies that could be
labelled ‘neo-Eurasianism studies.’
*Slavic Review*
Many of [the book’s] chapters provide a good overview of Far Right
developments in European countries. As a case in point, Vügar
İmanbeyli’s analysis of Turkish debates…is excellent in showing the
facets of Turkish ‘Eurasianism’ as this ideology has appeared in
recent decades. Similarly, Sofie Tipaldou provides a helpful,
thorough presentation of how the Greek Golden Dawn has built on its
neo-Nazi roots to acquire increased public presence.
*Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society*
Marlene Laruelle has assembled an impressive team of authors, who
show that Alexander Dugin’s Eurasianism is best understood as an
offshoot of the European Far Right, and not a product of Russia’s
distinctive cultural heritage. This makes for an interesting
contribution to the far reaches of the history of European
political thought.
*Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University*
This collection contributes significantly to the burgeoning
international field of comparative fascism studies, while also
allowing some of the inner metapolitical logic of Putin's foreign
policy to become transparent and intelligible. An important book
which should be read by all those who claim to be experts on the
machinations of contemporary Russia, and which finally puts some
substance into vapid discussions of its 'fascism'.
*Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University*
This well-designed volume fills a crucial gap in our understanding
of the ideological (and sometimes personal) ties connecting
Eurasianist philosophers in Russia (especially the infamous
Alexander Dugin) with surging anti-immigrant and far-right
ultranationalist political parties in Europe and Turkey. Marlene
Laruelle assembles an international cast of experts to examine
these questions with depth and nuance, focusing on implications for
Putin’s Kremlin and the evolving international order. A boon for
scholars, this work will also serve as a reference for journalists
and other analysts trying to understand the complexities of the
Russian-European relationship today.
*Kimberly Marten, Barnard College, Columbia University*
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