Is It Possible To Reason With Anti-Genderists?
Political cleavages between those who oppose and those who support sexual and reproductive rights have widened across the globe in recent decades as matters of gender, sexuality, and family become…
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August 2021
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Who votes for the radical right PiS Party in Poland?
We examine how the governing radical right Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) has a unique voter profile. Our findings reveal that in addition to strong anti-immigrant attitudes, voters that…
Why We Need More Women Working In Counter-Terrorism
Almost 20 years ago, large-scale terrorist attacks in the US plunged the world into a new security era focused on counter-terrorism. The development of prevention and countering strategies for violent…
In Rural Nevada, A Microcosm Of The GOP’s Increasingly Radical Local Politics
Oftentimes the extent to which the American population has become divided politically is expressed in the media by the results of public opinion surveys and the results of election contests.…
Stereotype threat and the opponents of far right demonstrations
The English Defence League In March 2009 the Sunni Muslim group Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa protested against the Royal Anglian Regiment’s homecoming parade that was organised in Luton (UK). In…
Why the Oklahoma bombing continues to cast a shadow over America
More than 25 years ago, on 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh launched an attack against a federal building in Oklahoma using explosives. This came to be known as the Oklahoma…
Terrorism Outlawed: Why The UK’s Ban Of Neo-Nazi Group The Base Is Important
‘Führer, you were only the beginning. We will finish what you started. It’s not over yet—We carry the torch.’ So swore Norman Spear, the alleged leader of international white supremacist group, The…
Why The Radical Right Exploits Games As Tools For Radicalization
In her novel Fliegeralarm (‘Air raid alarm’), German author Gisela Elsner, born in 1937, presents the pitch-black satirical story of a group of children during the last years of the Second World…
Centre-Right Party Electoral Success on Immigration in Europe: Diverse Macro-Economic & Macro-Political Contexts in the 21st Century
Dr James F. Downes finds that across the span of the twenty-first century, mainstream centre-right parties have been able to benefit electorally from adopting different strategies on the immigration issue…
The Musical Is Political: Black Metal and the Extreme Right
There has been an association between the occult, paganism and the extreme right ever since the evolution of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party from the Thule Society. In the…