How The Far Right Is Going Liquid
How many right-wing extremists are there in Germany? Security authorities, academia, and civil society repeatedly rack their brains over this question in order to accurately assess the threat to liberal…
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Inside The German Far-Right Party’s Effort To Normalize Nationalism Again
For this year’s federal election, the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has come up with a campaign that kills three birds with one slogan: it aims to establish…
Björn Höcke: Germany’s Very Own Enoch Powell?
Enoch Powell’s “Rivers Of Blood” speech became a model for the European far right, using deliberate taboo-breaking and rhetorical finesse to carry racist and fascist narratives into mainstream discourse. Björn…
The Politics of Recognition vs. Redistribution
At an earlier stage of my life, I had the great pleasure of spending two years teaching at York University in Toronto, Canada. Unlike the University of Toronto, whose campus…
“March Divided, Fight United”? The occasional and intentional ties of AfD and NPD to the White Power Music Scene
In the light of the efforts to monitor the AfD (Alternative for Germany) the similarities and differences to the unsuccessful attempts to ban the NPD (National Democratic Party) shine through.…
Alternative for Germany Is Failing to Keep Up
If not for the familiar awkwardness of social distancing rules, the scene at the digital party conference of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) would have been fit for a daytime…
A Buzzfeed-like Site For The Radical Right In Germany Poses New Challenges
Saturated colors, an abundance of stock images, big fonts, and sensationalist language: What sounds like a mix of a tabloid newspaper and a contemporary influencer’s Instagram profile is indeed the…
Beware! Populism in Conjunction with Conspiracy Theories Might be Bad for Your Health (Part 1)
Dresden is one of Germany’s great cities, known worldwide for its meticulously rebuilt historic center, destroyed in one night at the end of World War II. Pre-Christmas shoppers have probably…
In Controversial Company: Conservatives and Far Right United on German Unity Day
Despite the attempts to draw a clear line between conservatism and the far right, the eastern German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) celebrated the highly symbolic 30th anniversary of German Unity…
Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000–2020
Drawing on an original database of party expulsions of radical right parties in Europe across twenty countries from 2000-2020, Felix Wiebrecht, James F. Downes, Edward Chan and Anna Kam devise…