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The authors argue that the potential threat of a resurgence of
"fascism" has been consistently exaggerated from 1945 until present
day; that the ongoing lack of conceptual and definitional clarity
with respect to terms like "fascism," the "radical right," the "alt
right," "white supremacism," "populism," "racism," etc., has
enabled ill-informed or dishonest commentators to distort their
meaning and abusively misapply those labels so as to delegitimize
their political opponents-that the political and economic elites in
charge of contemporary Western societies are now deliberately
exaggerating and exploiting the threat posed by the domestic
radical right in order to facilitate vilifying, harassing,
de-platforming, censoring, "canceling," and repressing disgruntled
citizens (no matter where they may lie along the political
spectrum) who openly criticize and vigorously oppose their agendas.
They also advocate the use of well-established scholarly methods
for carrying out research on the right and provide precise
definitions of various terms in order to facilitate the development
of more accurate categorizations.
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably
constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous,
secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of
national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore
these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be,
since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The
second volume in this two-volume collection focuses primarily on
assorted religious extremists, including apocalyptic millenarian
cults, Islamists, and jihadist terrorist networks, as well as CBRN
(chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) terrorism and the
supposedly new "nexus" between organized criminal and extremist
groups employing terrorist operational techniques. A range of
global case studies are included, most of which focus on the lesser
known activities of certain religious extremist milieus. This
collection should prove to be essential reading for students and
researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but
nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and
contemporary politics.
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably
constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous,
secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of
national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore
these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be,
since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The
first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history
of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era;
neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe
and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of
those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of
various states, both authoritarian and democratic. A range of
global case studies are included, all of which focus on the lesser
known activities of certain secular extremist milieus. This
collection should prove to be essential reading for students and
researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but
nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and
contemporary politics.
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably
constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous,
secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of
national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore
these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be,
since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The
first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history
of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era;
neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe
and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of
those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of
various states, both authoritarian and democratic. A range of
global case studies are included, all of which focus on the lesser
known activities of certain secular extremist milieus. This
collection should prove to be essential reading for students and
researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but
nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and
contemporary politics.
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably
constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous,
secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of
national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore
these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be,
since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The
second volume in this two-volume collection focuses primarily on
assorted religious extremists, including apocalyptic millenarian
cults, Islamists, and jihadist terrorist networks, as well as CBRN
(chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) terrorism and the
supposedly new "nexus" between organized criminal and extremist
groups employing terrorist operational techniques. A range of
global case studies are included, most of which focus on the lesser
known activities of certain religious extremist milieus. This
collection should prove to be essential reading for students and
researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but
nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and
contemporary politics.
This project was done to help the military units and security
agencies better assess and cope with growing IED threat, both
overseas, and at home.
During the past 2 decades, two interrelated security threats have
emerged that Western democracies will likely be forced to contend
with for the foreseeable future. The first of these threats is
multifaceted inasmuch as it stems from a complex combination of
religious, political, historical, cultural, social, and economic
motivational factors: the growing predilection for carrying out
mass casualty terrorist attacks inside the territories of "infidel"
Western countries by clandestine operational cells that are
inspired ideologically by, and sometimes linked organizationally
to, various jihadist networks with a global agenda. The most
important of these latter networks is still the late Osama bin
Laden's high-profile group Qa'idat al-Jihad (The Base [or
Foundation] of the Jihad), together with its many organizational
offshoots and regional affiliates.
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