Active Clubs present themselves increasingly as quasi-self-help networks for anxious, frustrated, and socially adrift white men. Their recruitment offer combines fitness, friendship, community, status, and purpose with an ideology of racial hierarchy...
This article is part 2 in a series examining the contemporary state of left-wing political violence in Europe. Part 1 discussed the 42.7% increase in police-recorded violent left-wing offenses in Germany in 2025. This article uses a different lens...
The reintegration of those returning from conflict zones – especially Syria and Iraq – after having been involved in extremist and terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda has been a security concern for European Union (EU) member states in the last...
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban violently seized control of Afghanistan from its democratically elected government. In the five years since, the Taliban have drastically curbed human rights in Afghanistan, including barring higher education for women...
This blog entry is the third in a three-part series focusing on foreign fighters from Italy fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine. The first entry describes a network of neo-Nazi and neo-fascist extremists in Italy who fought on the side of...
This article opens a series examining the contemporary state of left-wing political violence in Europe. The series uses “left-wing political violence” as a conduct-based comparative category. National authorities classify such conduct differently: as...
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