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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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In Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy

Public financing is contributing to the rise of the far Right in Poland. In May 2021 the country’s Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sports announced the results of a competition for funding cultural…

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5 min

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Did a French Far-Right Thinker Predict 2020?

The year 2020 has thrown the world into disarray, with a severe pandemic creating many unforeseen challenges. The COVID-19 plague has so far infected nearly 30 million people worldwide, with…

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Radical-Right Voters and Democratic Support

Introduction The rise of radical-right parties is considered by many to be one of the largest modern threats to liberal democracy. There is a strong pattern of populist and radical…

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5 min

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The Right’s War On Science & Experts Escalates Amid COVID-19

Dr. Valerio Alfonso Bruno argues that far-right leaders have shown a disdain for experts and the wider role of science, despite the worsening COVID-19 global pandemic. They argue that the…

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9 min

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The Metapolitics of the Far Right

The far right wants metapolitics to simply go back to the past, restoring a thinly disguised form of fascism in the hijacked domain of contemporary conservative politics. Humans have always…

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6 min

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The Extremes Win Today’s Elections

The contemporary political landscape is characterized by extreme polarization, and that’s not only in Britain or the US. The outcome of the election in the United Kingdom is just one…

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Call for Chapters: New Routledge Handbook on Non-Violent Extremism

Call for Chapters Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates Background For a long-time overshadowed by jihadi extremism, non-violent (or vocal) extremism has been the centre of…

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5 min

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Of ‘Nazi-Pigs’, ‘Jewish sows’ and ‘bourgeois coalitions’ (A German perspective)

Democracy has a core meaning but it needs to be defined from a vantage point, given that is is a contested concept subject to dynamic framing and reframing processes. According…

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How The Radical Right Took American Politics Hostage

Through fear-mongering, conspiracy theories, and voter suppression tactics, the far-right has poisoned America’s political discourse in pursuit of power. Writing an op-ed column “Why Republicans Play Dirty” in The New…

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Authoritarians Are Winning Their War On Western Democracy

In Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy

Did a French Far-Right Thinker Predict 2020?

Radical-Right Voters and Democratic Support

The Right’s War On Science & Experts Escalates Amid COVID-19

The Metapolitics of the Far Right

The Extremes Win Today’s Elections

Call for Chapters: New Routledge Handbook on Non-Violent Extremism

Of ‘Nazi-Pigs’, ‘Jewish sows’ and ‘bourgeois coalitions’ (A German perspective)

How The Radical Right Took American Politics Hostage

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

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)