Articles by Vladimir Bortun
- Profile
- Vladimir Bortun is a lecturer in politics at St. John’s College, University of Oxford. His work has dealt with radical left parties, transnational politics, political elites and, more recently, the class politics of far-right populism. He is the author of the book Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe: The Radical Left’s Lost Decade.
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1, Theory
Europe’s far right, mapping its class politics
While the far right shares a racist discourse, from country to country its parties represent different factions of capital, from domestic manufacturers in Hungary to hedge funds in Britain. Beneath the rhetoric of Europe’s far right we find a web of competing economic interests. For the past decade or so, the steady rise of far-right populism has been a defining... Read More