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Tamir Bar-On (Beersheba, Israel, June 23, 1967 )^[1] is the leading Anglo-American expert on the French Nouvelle Droite (ND) or European New Right (ENR), a school of thought accused of fascism by its liberal and left-wing critics.^[2] Andreas Umland calls Bar-On's Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (Ashgate, 2007) "the most comprehensive scholarly investigation into the ENR in the English language yet."^[3] He argues it is "destined to become a standard reference and perhaps even the most influential English-language study on the subject for years to come."^{[4] [5]}A holder of Canadian and Israeli passports, Bar-On is a Full-time Professor of Humanities and International Relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Campus Querétaro, Mexico.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Where Have All the Fascists Gone? 3 Works 3.1 Books 3.2 Articles 3.3 Chapters in Edited Volume 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Bar-On completed his BA and MA in political science at York University (Toronto), while he earned his Ph.D. from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). The title of his dissertation was "The Ambiguities of the Intellectual European New Right, 1968-1999."^[6] His external thesis advisor was the esteemed British historian of fascism Roger Griffin^[7] Griffin penned the "Foreword" to Bar-On's Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, which argues that the ENR is a "modern revitalization movement" with intellectual roots in the fascist milieu.^[8] Bar-On was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at DePaul University (Chicago), as well as a professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo (Ontario), University of Windsor, and George Brown College (Toronto).

[edit] Where Have All the Fascists Gone?

Where Have All The Fascists Gone? examines how fascists in the post-World War II period often jettisoned open violence and waved the "post-fascist" and "anti-fascist" banners.^[9] For example, the ND meets many though not all of Stanley Payne's exhaustive criteria of fascist movements or regimes of the inter-war era.^[10] Yet, the leading ND intellectual, Alain de Benoist, attempted to revive the tradition of the inter-war Conservative Revolution (CR), which legitimised Fascist and Nazi regimes.^[11] The ND worldview is an "ambiguous synthesis of revolutionary Right or Conservative Revolution (CR) and New Left (NL) ideals,"^[12] which Bar-On summarizes in the equation: "CR + NL = nouvelle droite."^[13] A leading historian of fascism, Ze’ev Sternhell, argued fascism was first born in France as a union of ultra-nationalism + Marxist revisionism.^[14] Similarly, Bar-On posits that the most sophisticated revision of post-war fascism is the product of French intellectuals such as Alain de Benoist, who fused New Left concerns of the 1968 generation with revolutionary Right longings for a homogeneous identity.^[15]

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

• Where Have All the Fascists Gone?, Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7546-7154-1

[edit] Articles

• "Understanding Political Conversion and Mimetic Rivalry", Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 10:3 (December, 2009), pp. 241–264.
• "Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire", Journal of Contemporary European Studies 16/3 (2008), pp. 329–345.
• "The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999", The European Legacy 6/3 (2001), pp. 333–351.
• "Fighting Violence: A Critique of the War On Terrorism," International Politics 42 (2005), pp. 225–245.
• "A Critical Response to Roger Griffin's ‘Fascism's new faces and new facelessness in the post-fascist epoch,’" Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik (Deliberation, Knowledge, Ethics) 15/3 (April 2004), pp. 307-309.
• "The Ambiguities of Football, Culture, and Social Transformation in Latin America", Sociological Research Online 2/4 (1997), pp. 1–17.

[edit] Chapters in Edited Volume

• Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Quest For Empire", in Godin, E., Jenkins, B. and Mammone, A. (eds.), A Janus-Faced European Right-Wing Extremism (New York: Berghahn, 2009).
• "Quebec Separatist Conflict", in Nigel Young (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
• "European New Right," "Globalization," "Gramsci", and "GRECE" entries in Cyprian Blamires (ed.) (with Paul Jackson), World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp. 211–214; 280-281; 286; 290-291. ISBN 1-57607-940-6
• "A Critical Response to Roger Griffin's ‘Fascism's new faces" in Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, and Andreas Umland, (eds.), Fascism Past and Present, West and East (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2006), pp. 85–92. ISBN 978-3-89821-674-6
• "The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999," in Harvey Simmons and Sergei Plekhanov (eds.), Is fascism history?: selected papers (Toronto: Centre for International Security Studies, 2001).

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/4/bar-on.html
2. ^ François-Emmanuël Boucher, "Défendre l’irrecevable : comment l’ethos se substitue au logos dans le Liber amicorum Alain de Benoist".Protée 35/1 (2007), pp. 93-101.[1]
3. ^ Andreas Umland, "The European New Right: neo- or post-fascist," review of Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, Patterns of Prejudice 43/2 (2009).
4. ^ Ibid., pp. 198-199.
5. ^ [Érudit quotes Bar-on[[2]]
6. ^ Tamir Bar-On, “The Ambiguities of the Intellectual European New Right,1968-1999,” Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University, (Montreal, Quebec, 2000)
7. ^ Roger Griffin’s homepage at Oxford Brookes University
8. ^ Roger Griffin, "Another Face? Another Mazeway? Reflections on the Newness and Rightness of the European New Right," in Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, pp. xii-xvi.
9. ^ Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone? pp. 15-19.
10. ^ Ibid.
11. ^ Ibid, pp. 29-30.
12. ^ Tamir Bar-On, "Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire", Journal of Contemporary European Studies 16/3 (2008), p. 329.
13. ^ Ibid.
14. ^ Ze’ev Sternhell, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986) and Ze’ev Sternhell (with Mario Sznajder and Maia Asheri), The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994).
15. ^ Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, pp. 29-36.

[edit] External links

• Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, "Introduction," pp. 1–19, available at: http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Where_Have_All_The_Fascists_Gone_Intro.pdf
• York alumnus launches new book, Where Have all the Fascists Gone?, Y-File (13 February 2008), available at: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=9923
• The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999
• Amazon: Where Have All The Fascists Gone?
• Book review for Abdullah Ocalan, Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilisation
• "Introduction” to Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, (Ashgate, 2007)
• http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/4/bar-on.html
• Interview and book launch (York University, 2008) for Where Have All The Fascists Gone?
• Where Have All The Fascists Gone? Book Review