Extremist criminal offenses rise in Germany, intelligence report suggests
Right-wing extremism increased in Germany in 2019, the country’s domestic intelligence agency has reported, with over 32,000 extremists identified. The report ...
Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over a racist migrant comment
Germany’s populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on September 28, 2020 who had been caught on a hidden camera ...
Dutch appeals court clears far-right leader Wilders of inciting hatred
Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted by an appeals court on September 4, 2020 of discrimination, in a partial legal victory for ...
Different ways in which religion and populism intersect within world’s great faiths
Over the past three decades, religion has re-emerged as a key factor in domestic and international politics. One especially visible aspect ...
The Islamic Defenders Front: The Face of Indonesia’s Far-Right Islamism
This commentary uses a case study of Indonesia’s Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) to explore crucial questions regarding ...
Singing protest in Vienna
While many composers have retained the poison of their fascist associations, others worked directly to counter the nationalistic bluster of ...
Military and Populism: An Introduction
Although populism has become a focus of scholarly interest in the last decade, there has been much less research on ...
Transnational Islamist Populism between Pakistan and Turkey: The Case of Dirilis – Ertugrul
The highly politicized, Ottomanist themes of Ertugrul Ghazi, a Turkish television drama, are a manifestation of Turkey’s desire to expand its cultural ...
Whose Anthropocene? Climate Grief and Climate Justice
This commentary considers problems of privilege in climate anxiety and grief, asking which humans have left the deepest marks in ...
The Pastoral Populism of Pope Francis and Sayed Sistani
The pastoral populism of Pope Francis and Sayed Sistani focuses on the long game. It is a political and religious ...
Right-wing Populism in the Swedish, Greek, and French News Media
At a virtual meeting of the ECPS on March 16, 2021, the scholars Marianna Patrona and Joanna Thornborrow presented findings from ...
Professor Kaltwasser: Turkey cannot be considered a democratic system anymore
Professor Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: “The crucial question is what will happen in Turkey after Erdogan? To what extent does the ...
Prof. Bertjan Verbeek: Populist foreign policy weakens soft power
Discussing the impact of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) on the country’s foreign policy, Professor Verbeek highlighted his observation ...
Prof. Michael M. Bell: We have to understand knowledge as a social relation to understand authoritarian environmental populism
Talking about environmental populism and authoritarianism Professor Michael Mayerfeld Bell, who is also an author and a composer, explains the ...
Prof. Paul Taggart: I do not agree populists will inevitably fail
British political scientist Paul Taggart does not regard populism as a “pathology” nor as “evil” and contends that it could ...
Paul Lendvai: Orbán’s Hungary is a “Führer Democracy”
Viktor Orbán has built an extraordinarily centralized strongman regime, which can be described as “Führer Democracy.” Nowadays, Paul Lendvai argues, ...
Prof. Pratt: Populist Leaders in the West Tend to Have Short Political Lives
Professor John Pratt: “I think, democracy has largely held firm. The Netherlands, for example, I think there was an election ...
Dr. Mette Wiggen: Racism Is Key to Understanding the Far-right Everywhere
Dr. Wiggen: "Without understanding or trying to understand the role of racism, I can’t see how you can understand the ...
Shoshone Nation leader Darren Parry: All decisions should be based on the ‘seventh generation’ principle
Darren Parry, the Vice-Chairman of the Northwestern Shoshone Nation, a Utah tribe with headquarters in Brigham City, calls for US ...
Different ways in which religion and populism intersect within world’s great faiths