The book discusses the far right in the contemporary Portugal (1945-2015) within three different periods: the end of the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar (1945-1974), the transition to democracy after the coup d'état of April 25th (1974-1982) and the democratic regime until the present (1982-2015).

Riccardo Marchi is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Introduction

Part I - The Far Right at the end of the authoritarian regime (1945-1974)

Chapter 1 - The far right intellectual milieu at the end of the World War II (1945-1960)

Chapter 2 - The far right at the outbreak of the War in Africa (1961-1968)

Chapter 3 - The right-wing opposition to the Marcello Caetano Government (1968-1974)

Part II - The Far Right during the transition to democracy (1974-1982)

Chapter 1 - The far right resistance during the revolution (1974-1975)

Chapter 2 - The far right resurgence in the 'democratic normalization' (1976-1982)

Chapter 3 - The metapolitics as the new strategy to modernize the far right (1982-1985)

Part III - The Far Right during the consolidated democracy (1982-2015)

Chapter 1 - A new cycle in democracy: the groupuscular and subcultural far right (1985-1999)

Chapter 2 - The new party strategy at the dawn of the new millennium (1999-2015)

Chapter 3 - The identitarian movement in Portugal