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 Nedić 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