How have far-right parties in the Mediterranean performed after the end of the Cold war? : a comparative study between France and Greece

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation has been fueled by the unprecedented rise of the Far-Right throughout Europe and the rest of the world after the end of the Cold War. Why the end of the Cold War? This particular period in history had completely alienated the world from the traditional way of politics and after the end of the Second World War, there was no space for the growth of ideologies such as the Far-Right. Furthermore, it is also extremely interesting to analyze the realities which brought back the belief in such ideologies. In this dissertation, the individual cases of France and Greece were chosen for a detailed assessment of the different characteristics of their respective Far-Right parties and the tactics they use, which have enabled them to grow into quasi-mainstream parties. Apart from this, the main attributes, political, economic and social positions and faults of these parties were also discussed together with an assessment of how the future of such parties would look like in the coming years.