The Radical Right During Crisis

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who explore the dynamics and impact of the radical right. It explores a wide range of topics including reflections on authoritarianism and fascism, the role of ideology and (counter-)intellectuals, and radical-right responses to the pandemic and calls for police reform in the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. It ends with important assessments on best approaches towards countering the radical right, both online and offline. This timely overview provides a broad examination of the global radical right in 2020, which will be useful for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists, and the public.

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Dr Eviane Leidig is an affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, and a postdoctoral fellow at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. Her research looks at the transnational connections between the far right in India and the West. She has held visiting researcher positions at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (sponsored by VOX-Pol, an EU Network of Excellence), and New York University. She is currently writing a book on the role of women in the alt-right. She serves as Head of Publishing at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR).