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The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) is the leading information aggregator and knowledge repository on the radical right, past and present.
Above all, CARR intends to lead discussion on the development of radical right extremism around the world. To do this, CARR features work by experts on the radical right in Europe, the US and beyond.
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TantonWatch: Battling Hate in the Immigration Debate
The contemporary anti-immigration movement in the United States is largely the product of decades of organizing, fundraising, and ideological work by one man — John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist who founded, funded or otherwise nurtured more than a dozen nativist groups. The network of groups Tanton built up still dominates the politics of immigration in America, with one of those groups testifying to Congress at least 90 times, another at least 130 times, and a third playing a critical role in killing bipartisan immigration reform in 2007 and 2014. The network was also a key…
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Response to “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose”
Craig McCann’s recent article, “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose,” I am told, does not necessitate a response. The piece is so noxious that it casts a pall over…
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How The Radical Right Infiltrates Suburban Communities
Much of the research conducted on the radical right focuses on what happens online, or on the end-stages of the radicalization process (events like rallies, protests or terror attacks and…
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Authoritarians Are Winning Their War On Western Democracy
What makes Western liberal democracy weak? This question must have been considered by its geopolitical adversaries: the authoritarian regimes in their effort to unlock Pandora’s box: the…
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A Focus on Violence Creates Blind Spots in Assessing the Far-Right Threat
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Madrid (2004) and London (2005), many Western governments developed countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies, with the UK’s PREVENT scheme,…
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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)
Part 2: Modernisation, Funding & International Activism Attempts to Soften the BF Image Overall, BF presents a bizarre, schizoid image of a party that claims to be very strong on…
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Apology Recently, CARR published a blog that many CARR fellows believe contradicted values that we hold as a research community. Amid the controversy following the blog’s publication, it was…
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CARR Policy Insight Series – Extreme Right Foreign Fighters: Analysis and Policy Responses for a Multi-faceted Security Issue
Extreme Right Foreign Fighters Analysis: and Policy Responses for a Multi-faceted Security Issue Nicolò Miotto In this CARR Policy Insight, Nicolò Miotto aims to fill a research gap by…
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Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.
There are a host of studies on how the radical right mobilises, spreads its message, and is policed. Unfortunately, there is far too little analysis of the impact that hate crime has on its…
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Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
The study of fascism in countries (like Italy, Germany, France, and Britain) has flourished to the extent of becoming a small cottage industry. Historians are fascinated by places where…
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CARR Reform Statement
Apology Recently, CARR published a blog that many CARR fellows believe contradicted values that we hold as a research community. Amid the controversy following the blog’s publication, it was…
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Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)
Ideology Research Unit at CARR is delighted to invite you to Michael Freeden (Oxford)’s session, a part of the online webinar series entitled ‘The Future of Ideologies’, held in…
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Response to “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose”
Craig McCann’s recent article, “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose,” I am told, does not necessitate a response. The piece is so noxious that it casts a pall over…
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How The Radical Right Infiltrates Suburban Communities
Much of the research conducted on the radical right focuses on what happens online, or on the end-stages of the radicalization process (events like rallies, protests or terror attacks and…
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Authoritarians Are Winning Their War On Western Democracy
What makes Western liberal democracy weak? This question must have been considered by its geopolitical adversaries: the authoritarian regimes in their effort to unlock Pandora’s box: the…
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A Focus on Violence Creates Blind Spots in Assessing the Far-Right Threat
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Madrid (2004) and London (2005), many Western governments developed countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies, with the UK’s PREVENT scheme,…
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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)
Part 2: Modernisation, Funding & International Activism Attempts to Soften the BF Image Overall, BF presents a bizarre, schizoid image of a party that claims to be very strong on…
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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)
Part 1: Origins, Ideology & Activism The far-right political party Britain First (BF) was originally formed in 2011 as an activist group campaigning on a white supremacist,…
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Problems of Remembering the Holocaust in the time of Covid-19
As memorial events develop around International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, the intersection between debates over tackling Covid-19 and forms of Holocaust trivialisation become…
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The Latest Frontier In Radicalization: Gaming
The power and reach of gaming have only risen in significance over the last few years, and thankfully governments, institutions, and other PVE (Preventing Violent Extremism) practitioner…
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Proscribing the Far Right: Is Spain Doing Enough?
Spain is no longer an exception when it comes to the growth of right-wing extremism. Proscription, the listing of some groups or organizations as terrorists, has become a crucial…
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Radicalisation in the Military – A Pressing Issue
Recent years have seen a number of alarming cases involving currently serving soldiers and veterans engage in extreme right wing activity. In June 2020, following intelligence reports that…
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