In the last decade right-wing extremism has experienced a surge in prominence globally. Serbia has not deviated from this prevailing pattern even though Serbia experienced revival of extreme nationalism in the late 1980s and 1990s with the slow and painful dissolution of Yugoslavia. Post-war Serbia experienced political and economic ‘transition’ during the first decade of the 2000s. In other terms, the post-Miloševic era was marked by democratic and neoliberal economic reforms. However, this period proved to be also fruitful for a revival of fascist and Nazi ideologies. Although the contemporary extreme right has roots in fascism and Nazism of the early twentieth century, its ideology has morphed to accommodate present political and economic challenges. The most important elements of the extreme right ideology are Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitic and Islamophobic expressions of Serbian extreme right organizations share numerous similarities with those of European extreme right organizations. Simultaneously, Serbian extreme right exhibits distinctive characteristics that set them apart from other European extreme right organizations.
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