Germany Has Stepped Up Its Efforts Combating Right-Wing Extremism
Angela Merkel’s fourth cabinet will be remembered for a number of reasons. Not only due to the fact that its formation took surprisingly long or because it was the last…
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Why Does the Radical Right Oppose European Integration?
Right-wing opposition to the European Union, rooted in the perception that integration and all kinds of international cooperation are a threat to the nation-state and its sovereignty, is evident and…
Does The Radical Right Thrive In Two-Party Or Multi-Party Systems?
Despite a diverse set of political landscapes with unique histories, it is nonetheless the case that the Alt-right has managed to orchestrate major electoral success across the world from Australia…
5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism
July 22, 2021, is the 10th anniversary of the Utøya-Massacre, when Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in a political holiday camp organized by the Norwegian Labour Party, as well as…
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…
The Far-Right Is Now Using Comic Books To Spread Their Ideology
Comics have long become a popular genre of entertainment and, given their emotiveness and the immediacy of the image-word arrangement, it comes as no surprise that the far right, too,…
German Nationalism, From Revolution to Illiberalism
It is often noted that 19th-century nationalism owed much to the rise of academic history. As historians have observed, studies in national development provided materials for later and cruder claims…
Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic
The acronym PEGIDA has been associated with grassroots anti-Islam protest for some years. In fact, the group – full name ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the (Christian) West’ –…
How Authoritarians Erode Democracy Under The Guise Of Defending It
The last decade has brought about both new conspiracy theories as well as the revival of older conspiracy myths on the far-right. Some far-right figureheads propagate the fear of a…
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…