Evangelical Blues, or How Supporting Trump Discredits Christianity
For Donald Trump, evangelicals represent a crucial electorate — one which he cannot afford to affront. Now in the final year of his first — or only? — presidential term,…
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January 2020
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Personal reflections from a woman in the extremist underground
Within the radical right, men have always out-numbered women; I was one of those women for five years of my life. In 2012 I began disengaging from the extremist underground…
Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect
My new book, “Reconfiguring Islamophobia: a radical rethinking of a contested concept” (Palgrave Macmillan) marks a decade since the publication of my first book on the topic (“Islamophobia”, Ashgate). Through…
What Drives the Center Right’s Electoral Success?
Center-right parties recognized the 2008 economic crisis as a time of greater voter volatility when the populist radical right sought to secure more support through appeals over immigration. The 2008…
Remembering Auschwitz 75 through Sonderkommando Photography
Remembering the past is always complex. Remembering inevitably means we recall only selected sections of the past, and so in making any such selection we forget as much as we…
The Liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 1945
In this latest CARR Insights Blog, Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb, provides a descriptive account of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and what those events mean for the remembrance of the…
Technology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Earlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was one of the biggest challenges facing the UK’s Security Services. Sir Andrew…
“The Black Carlos”: The Story of Italian Right-Wing Terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie
Rome, 12 September 2019: Mourners are raising their arms in the Roman salute and singing the hymn of the former neo-fascist organization National Vanguard (Avanguardia Nazionale; AN) while a coffin…
The dusk after the dawn: fall of a Greek Neo-Nazi party
What can we learn from the rise and fall of the Golden Dawn party in Greece? Golden Dawn began as an ideological movement that managed throughout the years to evolve…
5 Ways Policymakers Should Combat The Radical Right In 2020
With radical right extremism on the rise globally, here are 5 ways that we should think about combating it based on policy lessons from the United Kingdom. In a year…