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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…

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CARR MA in Terrorism, Security and Radical Right Extremism

MA in Terrorism Security, and Radical Right Extremism (subject to validation) CARR, in conjunction with Richmond, the American University in London, is pleased to announce the start of an exciting…

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Reports

The many faces of the radical right and how to counter their threat

A whole ecosystem has grown up around the radical right as it has surged in visibility this century. The radical right can lay claim to its own stable of media…

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US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Introduction In what has become an all-too-familiar script, in the early afternoon of Saturday, 14 May 2022, a heavily-armed young man in military gear attacked shoppers and workers at a supermarket…

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Book Reviews

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…

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Book Reviews

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 fascists…

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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 pointed…

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Upcoming

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 collaboration…

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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…

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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 weapons that can…

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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, launched in 2007, being…

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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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