extremism

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Far-Right Extremism and the Politics of Feeling: Embracing the ‘Affective Turn’

For casual observers, journalists and researchers alike, the small, impassioned worlds generated by the extreme right can seem, to say the least, deeply unappealing. The agendas of such extremists are…

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5 min

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Is The Far-Right’s Praise Of The Taliban Indicative Of Something Bigger?

In the September/October 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), argues that in the wake of 9/11, the rise of…

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8 min

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Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

Sometime ago, an international team of authors, as part of the work of my European Centre for Democracy Development, completed a major project to monitor manifestations of xenophobia and extremism…

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14 min

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Can individual Radical-Right Extremism be cured?

One of the enduring expectations of the counter-extremism ‘movement’ (whether governmental, policing, agency, academic, civil society or activist) is that, with sustained and targeted effort, it is both necessary and…

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4 min

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The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

On 20 April, the UK government banned the US-based neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Home secretary Priti Patel said she was taking action “to protect young and vulnerable people from being radicalised”. Recent statistics from…

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5 min

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Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

While the UK and, indeed, most of Europe has been under some form of lockdown over the last 12 months, there has been growing discussion about the detrimental effects of…

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8 min

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Radical-Right Recruitment (Part I): A Proposal to Enhance Conceptual Clarity

Lede: In this first part of a two part series, Senior Fellow Dr Mario Peucker discusses the nature of radical-right recruitment and the different strategies on the spectrum of directed…

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5 min

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We Can’t Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

As all eyes have shifted – at least in Western security communities – towards the growing threat of radical right extremism and terrorism. It is becoming increasingly apparent how the different defining lines of…

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6 min

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Pandemic Poses Radicalization Risks For Children

Despite the fact that there has been a steady increase in radicalization among minors in the last few years, COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation. This is in part due to lockdown restrictions,…

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Far-Right Extremism and the Politics of Feeling: Embracing the ‘Affective Turn’

Is The Far-Right’s Praise Of The Taliban Indicative Of Something Bigger?

Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

Can individual Radical-Right Extremism be cured?

The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

Radical-Right Recruitment (Part I): A Proposal to Enhance Conceptual Clarity

We Can’t Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

Pandemic Poses Radicalization Risks For Children

The Swords of Wayland: from family television to fascist mythos

The Borderline between Poland and Belarus: A Spotlight on the Transnational Far Right

The Sobibor Area Labour Camps – Part II

The Sobibor Area Labour Camps – Part I