May 2018

Insights

Germany Remembers Solingen Arson Attack

The 1993 Solingen arson attack marked the climax of radical-right violence in Germany following reunification. This year, the fatal arson attack in Solingen, a North Rhine-Westphalian city of around 160,000…

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4 min

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Right? Left? Neither? Why Radical Right Parties Reject the Politics of Left and Right

The death of the categories of Left and Right is a frequent trope in political analysis. The familiar distinction borne out of the French Revolution has seen its relevance challenged…

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4 min

Insights

The Return Of Nationalism And The Rise Of The Radical Right

What animates the politics of the radical right today? My colleague Sarah Valdez and I identify neo-nationalism as the common denominator of contemporary radical right parties. Nationalism is a political…

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5 min

Insights

The Cuckoo in the Nest – Countering Violent Extremism

In late May 2018, I was invited to a conference to run workshops with a group of safeguarding professionals in London. The topic of my talk was “Right wing extremism…

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2 min

Reports

Report: “Contemporary Far-Rights. Right Radicalism in Europe: Ideology, Social Basis, Prospects”

The European International Tolerance Centre in Riga has recently published, “Contemporary Far-Rights. Right Radicalism in Europe: Ideology, Social Basis, Prospects”. The Editor in Chief and Project Head of the report is…

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Prevent, radicalism, radical islam, radical right,

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5 min

Insights

Journey of a Radical Right Prevent Referral

The Home Office has recently released its latest set of statistics on the UK Prevent strategy and Channel programme for the period April 2016 to March 2017. Perhaps the standout headline was…

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4 min

Insights

Greece’s Problem With Radical Right Violence and the Politics of History

One doesn’t have to be an expert to attest that Greece has a fundamental problem with violence from the radical right. Alone in the first months of this year, we…

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6 min

Insights

What Impact Will Britain’s Increasingly Relaxed Attitudes to Immigration Have on Radical Right Support?

Running counter to a common narrative holding that Britain has become a more intolerant country since the Brexit vote, data continues to emerge that British attitudes to immigration have relaxed…

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4 min

Insights

The Underlying Radicalism of Brexit

Earlier this year, an intriguing lens was cast on the nature of radical and far-right ideas in post-Brexit Britain. At the center was a graphic tweeted by Leave.EU — the…

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4 min

Insights

“Auschwitz Concentration Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance”

Last month my latest book was published by ibidem-verlag which covered the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, its history, biographies and remembrance. Having written and had published three books on the Aktion…

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Categories

Germany Remembers Solingen Arson Attack

Right? Left? Neither? Why Radical Right Parties Reject the Politics of Left and Right

The Return Of Nationalism And The Rise Of The Radical Right

The Cuckoo in the Nest – Countering Violent Extremism

Report: “Contemporary Far-Rights. Right Radicalism in Europe: Ideology, Social Basis, Prospects”

Journey of a Radical Right Prevent Referral

Greece’s Problem With Radical Right Violence and the Politics of History

What Impact Will Britain’s Increasingly Relaxed Attitudes to Immigration Have on Radical Right Support?

The Underlying Radicalism of Brexit

“Auschwitz Concentration Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance”

Review of Eirikur Bergmann, Neo-Nationalism: The Rise of Nativist Populism (Springer, 2020), 235pp.

CARR REPORT: FAR-RIGHT MOBILISATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN (FRGB DATASET) 2009-2019

“Infamy! Infamy! They’ve All Got It Infamy!”* The Paranoid Delusions of Radical Right Conspiracism

What Happened to Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall?