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The Italian elections of September 2022 represented a watershed moment for the country, as for the first time in the postwar era a far-right government came to power. The new…
This piece is a translation of the original French version that first appeared in Le Monde. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) concluded in Washington, DC on February 22, 2025.…
In less than a decade, violence has shifted from being a diffuse and occasional practice to becoming a constant in Brazilian political life. According to the human rights organizations Terra…
Populism became the buzzword across much of the world in the 2010s. Well-known ostensible expressions of the phenomenon include the election – and now re-election – of Donald Trump to…
This article is a translation of the original French version that appeared in Mediapart on January 7, 2025. Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday, January 7, at the age of…
As Donald Trump begins his second term as president, the country and the world are braced for what is surely to be an onslaught of illiberal and undemocratic affronts from…
In early 2017, at the beginning of the first Trump administration, I was teaching at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. At that point, there…
Across the world, 2024 was a year of elections. In total, voters in more than 50 countries containing more than half of the world’s population went to the polls to…
Viktor Orbán has dedicated enormous financial resources to developing international soft power networks with the purpose of influencing politics in Western Europe and the United States. A few examples include…
https://youtu.be/l6AUXhwsjwY Download PDF On Friday, November 15th, the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Illiberalism Studies Program at the George Washington University hosted a panel discussion on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzN96gHU5A A Summary of Samuel Rogers’ Book Presentation Download PDF On Tuesday, October 8th, the Illiberalism Studies Program at the George Washington University held a virtual event inviting political economist…
The Void Left by Q: How the Biolab Narrative Gained Momentum By 2021, the enigmatic figure “Q” had largely retreated from the digital limelight, leaving a void in the conspiracy…
As the presidential campaign in the United States becomes increasingly heated, the narratives tend to focus more on emotions than concrete policy proposals. In a way, this echoes debates around…
The post-screening presentation and Q&A by, from left to right: Scott Wiper, Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), and Ivan Raiklin. March 21, 2024, Sheridan Church, Tulsa Oklahoma.…
The following is an edited version of remarks delivered by A. James McAdams, Sarah Shurts, Laura K. Field, and Sam Piccolo on May 2, 2024 as part of a presentation…
Originally published in French at https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/05/22/prendre-leurope-par-lelection-lextreme-droite-mondiale-a-madrid/ From Milei to Orbán, including Meloni and Le Pen; from Portugal's Ventura to Trump's America: the international far-right convened in Madrid this weekend in…
