Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule

War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73254-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.

Military occupation represents the highest degree of political, social and economic control over an occupied state and its society. This collective book analyses how the three poles of Axis rule—Nazi Germany, Italian Fascism and Authoritarian Japan—lead the dynamics of institution-building of political regimes of occupation under their direct or indirect control.

The contributions examine how the ideological, political and economic relationship between the occupying forces and different segments of national and local elites were present in the institutional crafting of new regimes. Military occupation opened a window of opportunity for the takeover of power by different segments of these authoritarian elites and the tension and forced pacts between different projects of institutionalization of dictatorships were a clear sign of this dynamic process. In this context, the debates and the praxis of the construction of new dictatorial political systems are analysed, looking to identify the design of their institutions, the segments of the political elites that hegemonize them, the diffusion and promotion models present, and the attitudes of the Axis powers before them.

This volume is ideal for all those interested in the study of War, Dictatorships and the global history and politics of Fascism.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costa Pinto, António

Adinolfi, Goffredo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule. Towards a Global Overview

Antonio Costa Pinto

2. Hácha’s Protectorate. Limping Corporatism and Calibrated Collaboration in Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi Rule

Radka Šustrová

3. ‘Hitler Gave the Slovaks a State’: On the Fascistization of Christian Nationalism and Social Catholicism in Tiso’s Slovakia, 1939–1942

Miloslav Szabó

4. "Not to recognise oneself as a serf is the worst of servitudes." Marshall Pétain as a dictator, July 1940-August 1944 Marc-Olivier Baruch

 5. Norway under Vidkun Quisling: ‘Not guilty!’

 Stein U. Larsen

 6. The short-lived national-socialist Arrow-Cross government in Hungary: imported Fascism vs. local conservatism?

Catherine Horel

 7. The Ustasha Regime, State, and Nation-Building Process. State ‘Independence’ in the Axis ‘New Order’

Goran Miljan

  8. The Nedic Regime in Occupied Serbia. Conflicting Loyalties and Aims

Rastko Lompar

 9. Building a puppet state: Italian Occupation and collaboration in Albania, 1939-1943

Enriketa Pandelejmoni

 10. The Italian Social Republic. Legitimation Struggles and Unfulfilled Visions

Goffredo Adinolfi

 11.State (dis)continuity in occupied Greece: regimes of emergency

Aristotle Kallis

12. Ideology and control: Instruments of authoritarianism in Japanese Manchuria

Thomas David DuBois

13. From Constitutional Mirage to Party Hegemony: Building the Wang Jingwei Regime in Japanese-Occupied China (1939–1942)

David Serfass

Über Autor(innen)

António Costa Pinto is a professor of politics at Lusofona University, Campus of Lisbon and a research professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon. His research interests include fascism, democratisation and political elites. Recent publications include: Looking for An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism. Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America (2021).

Goffredo Adinolfi is a research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon. His research interests are mainly focused on anti-liberal thought, fascism and populism. He is the author of The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919–1924) (2025).