Abstract

The radical Right in Europe and Islamist parties in Muslim countries have conventionally been portrayed as fundamentally different. The article uses material from Bangladesh to argue that the two share a wide set of characteristics and can be understood as fundamentally similar. Theoretically, we suggest a concept of the radical Right that encapsulates a set of deeper sentiments found to some extent in any culture or society. These deeper sentiments are normally obfuscated by attention-grabbing current events, but, isolated analytically, can be seen to give rise to parallel developments in different contexts. Our argument expands the theoretical value of the concept of the radical Right and helps understand recent political developments in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and, potentially, the wider authoritarian turn.

摘要

传统上将欧洲的激进权利和穆斯林国家的伊斯兰政党描绘成根本不同的人物。这篇文章使用孟加拉国的材料来论证，两者具有广泛的特征，可以理解为根本上相似。从理论上讲，我们建议一个激进的权利概念，该概念封装了在某种文化或社会中某种程度上发现的一系列更深层的情感。通常，引人入胜的时事模糊了这些更深层的情感，但从分析上孤立，可以看出在不同情况下会引起平行发展。我们的论点扩展了激进权利概念的理论价值，并有助于了解穆斯林占多数的孟加拉国最近的政治发展，以及可能的更广泛的威权主义转向。