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Argentina’s Elections: The Milei-Villarruel Ticket Threatens Return of Neo-Fascist Videla Regime in Modern Garb

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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…

The 2023 Dutch General Elections: Can the New Political Landscape Help to Solve the Polycrisis?

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On November 22, the Netherlands goes to the polls. The upcoming general elections follow the break up of the Dutch cabinet in July, when the coalition—comprising the conservative-liberal People’s Party for…

Fico is Back, but Illiberalism in Slovakia Faces Headwinds

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The consequences of the early Slovak elections on September 30, 2023 are now evident. On Wednesday, October 25, Robert Fico from Smer-SD (Direction-Social Democracy) was appointed prime minister for the…

Normal but Serious: The Drift to Illiberalism on Britain’s Right

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What has gone wrong with conservatism in Britain? Many are asking the question, not least “big C” Conservatives themselves. Five prime ministers in eight years. Inner-party feuding. War from the…
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Javier Milei, the New Right and the Rise of Libertarian Populism in Argentina

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Forty years after the return to democracy, Argentina's democracy is undergoing a legitimation crisis brought about by triple-digit inflation, which has pushed 40% of the population below the poverty line.…

Destructive Ambiguity: How Polish Populist Incumbents Tinker with Electoral Fairness

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Election fairness, although often idealized and considered with little nuance, is seen as one of the foundations of democratic order. Domestic watchdogs and international institutions such as the OSCE Office…
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Only the Pragmatic Survive: The Meloni Government’s Struggle with Migration

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Around this time last year, Italy’s first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was elected bringing to Palazzo Chigi the nation’s most right-wing government since 1945. At the helm of this…

Blues on the Danube: CPAC’s Return to Hungary

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On the 4th and 5th of May 2023, Budapest played host for the second time to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference itself was colored largely by its…

Alexander Dugin: Philosopher or Ideologue?

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“Dugin is the chief philosophical mastermind of an ideologically coherent alternative to Western political modernity. And like it or not, that is a remarkable accomplishment, from which even those who…
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Flashpoint: The Far Right’s Response to Pension Reform in France

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If one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s New Year’s resolutions was to avoid the strikes and protests that characterized his first term, he is off to a shaky start. 1.1…

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

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The internet is a strange place. In one of the latest causes célèbres, the artist formerly known as Kanye West has outed himself in spectacular fashion as an antisemite. Ye’s…
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Reflections on CPAC México: Five Battles of the International Far Right

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Right-wing activists and leaders from around the world descended on Mexico City on November 18 and 19 for CPAC México, the latest international edition of the conservative confab. CPAC México…
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The Golden Dawn Trials on Appeal

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It took more than five-and-a-half years and 497 court sessions to complete the largest trial in Modern Greek history against the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn (GD).  The trial ended on October 22, 2020 with the…
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The Illiberal Right Moves Beyond Critique

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“Liberalism needs an enemy to maintain its sacramental dynamism. It can never rest in calm waters, basking in the day of victory; it is essential that at any given moment…
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Meloni’s Allies

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A new coalition had just come to power in Italy, forming what was widely labelled the most right-wing government since 1945.  Pinuccio Tatarella was one of two deputy prime ministers,…
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Maladapted Liberalism: A Review of Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and its Discontents

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Fukuyama, Francis. Liberalism and Its Discontents. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. A lot has happened in the 30 years since The End of History and the Last…