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Trump’s Incompetent Authoritarianism Failed, But A Smarter Trump Looms

With the dust settling, it will be clear that Trump left the White House as he entered it: with utter contempt for democratic institutions, themselves alarmingly weak, but mercifully without…

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5 min

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Research Suggests Globalization Doesn’t Drive Nationalism

According to the backlash hypothesis, it is globalization that has fueled the resurgence of nationalism and electoral gains by the radical right. This explanation of contemporary politics is relatively uncontroversial.…

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In Greece, a new far right movement is taking the stage

‘Greeks for the Fatherland’ seems to be here to fill the gap left by the legal troubles of Golden Dawn. The emergence of a new party was announced by Elias…

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An “ambivalent day”: How the AfD attempts to re-frame the 8th May as day to commemorate German Victimhood

Suggestions to make the 8th May a national German holiday on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of Second World War have given the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…

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What Hungary’s Nationalist Farmers Have Against Orban

The Hungarian far right envisages agricultural alternatives to Viktor Orban’s populism. Balint is a 30-year-old PhD student from northern Hungary, with expertise in organic farming and environmentally friendly agriculture. Well…

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6 min

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Amid COVID-19, Trump Attempts To Rewrite History

The far-right has always created “alt-histories” and used historical revisionism to protect their power. President Trump is no different. In 2017, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to US President Donald Trump, coined…

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When Emotion Trumps Dispassionate Politics

The radical populist right’s appeal to emotions has been one of the main reasons for its staying power over the span of more than four decades. The triumph of Nazism…

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7 min

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Part Two: Historismus, Ranke’s Influence and its Ultimate Crisis

In the previous blog, Henry Mead scoped out the nature and origins of ‘Historismus’ in the work of Leopold von Ranke. Today’s second part scopes out Ranke’s influence and his…

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5 min

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OK, Boomer: Understanding Today’s Generational Divide

Today, generations often mark difference in ethics, politics and expectations for the future. “Historical generations are not born; they are made. They are a device by which people conceptualize society…

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Historismus. Part One: Historismus, Ranke and its Roots at the University of Berlin

The tradition of German historismus (often translated in English as historicism) was the leading method of historical study in Germany through the 19th and well into the 20th century. Its…

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Trump’s Incompetent Authoritarianism Failed, But A Smarter Trump Looms

Research Suggests Globalization Doesn’t Drive Nationalism

In Greece, a new far right movement is taking the stage

An “ambivalent day”: How the AfD attempts to re-frame the 8th May as day to commemorate German Victimhood

What Hungary’s Nationalist Farmers Have Against Orban

Amid COVID-19, Trump Attempts To Rewrite History

When Emotion Trumps Dispassionate Politics

Part Two: Historismus, Ranke’s Influence and its Ultimate Crisis

OK, Boomer: Understanding Today’s Generational Divide

Historismus. Part One: Historismus, Ranke and its Roots at the University of Berlin

Trump’s Exploitation Of Christianity And Assault On Women’s Rights

Portfolio Distributions of Radical-Right Cabinet Ministers

Is Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?

Live Free or Die: America vs. Science

At the “Stop the Steal” Rally, DC: A Survey of Far-Right Rhetoric and Symbology