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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…
The re-election of Vladimir Putin on March 15-17, 2024 should not be read literally: it was a plebiscite to validate the president as the embodiment of the nation and its…
“Our goal is to build a network of the conservative world in Europe and the West, a project that we have been working on for years but are intensifying in…
Populist leaders frequently emerge in Latin America, but few manage to sustain public support beyond their initial term. Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, has entered this elite group…
The context of the political crisis This year marks 50 years since the establishment of democracy in Portugal on April 25th 1974, thanks to the military coup d’état that overthrew…
The large victory of Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch election of November 22nd was unexpected and unprecedented: never before did a far-right party come out on…
In the upcoming Argentine presidential election on November 19, Javier Milei and his vice-presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel threaten to bring back a modernized version of the brutal fascist regime of…
