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The Phenomenon of Far-Right Extremism in Pakistan: A Myth or Reality?

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2022
The world has witnessed an increase in far-right extremism, particularly in Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, India, and the U.S, where far-right political parties have assumed power.
Abeeda Qureshi, Tanzeela Naz
doaj   +1 more source

The Office of Constitution Protection of Germany: the Experience of 70 years [PDF]

open access: yesНаучно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2021
The article is dedicated to analysis and efficiency evaluation of the Office of Constitution protection – a key law-enforcement body in Germany, which prevents political extremism, spionage and anti-state activities.
Alexander Kamkin
doaj   +1 more source

Persistent beliefs: Political extremism predicts ideological stability over time

open access: yesGroup Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2020
Previous research suggests that political extremists have stronger convictions in their beliefs than moderates. The present research examines the relationship between political extremism and belief stability, defined as the extent to which people change ...
Maria V. Zwicker   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
This paper introduces three new scales to measure left- and right-wing radical as well as general extremist attitudes that can be applied across Western European countries.
Jungkunz S, Helbling M, Osenbrügge N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism : UK security discourse, 2001-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled
Hunter, Duncan   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

No Strong Leaders Needed? AfD Party Organisation Between Collective Leadership, Internal Democracy, and “Movement-Party” Strategy

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
This article analyses the formal and lived organisation of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany). We show that the party is exceptional among what is usually understood as the populist radical right (PRR) party family, at least ...
Anna-Sophie Heinze, Manès Weisskircher
doaj   +1 more source

The political extreme as the new normal: the cases of Brexit, the French state of emergency and Dutch Islamophobia

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2017
In this article we carry out a geopolitical analysis of the turbulent breeze driving the EU into uncharted extremes. To do this we zoom in on three cases that we deem both a response to political extremism and a source of political extremism in ...
Henk van Houtum, Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
doaj   +1 more source

A Synopsis of Perspectives on (United Nations) Peace Operations from Theories of International Relations

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2022
The post-Cold War era witnessed a significant increase in the size and scope of peace operations. However, the role and purpose of peace operations have not received commensurate attention within the intellectual context of theories of international ...
Inam-ur-Rehman Malik, Ayesha Khalid
doaj   +1 more source

Britain’s Prevent Programme: An End in Sight? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter critiques the UK’s Prevent programme since its inception in 2006, and argues that it has been significantly flawed and counter-productive from the start through its partial, monocultural focus on Muslims as an entire and undifferentiated ...
Thomas, Paul
core   +1 more source

Does the Winner Take it All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations.
Gianmarco Daniele   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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