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Resources > Key consepts and questions

Clear answers to complex questions

This guide offers concise, evidence-based responses to key questions surrounding far-right populism, radicalization, and political violence.

Key concepts

  • What is antisemitism?

  • What is a conspiracy theory?
  • What is fascism?

  • What is fundamentalism?

  • What is hate crime?

  • What is Islamophobia?

  • What is nationalism?

  • What is Nazism?

  • What is populism?

  • What is racism?

  • What is radicalization?

  • What is right-wing extremism?

  • What is right-wing radicalism?

  • What is terrorism?

Key questions

  • What characterizes the far-right scene in Europe and beyond?
  • What explains far-right mobilization?
  • What is the relationship between the far right and environmentalism?
  • What explains why people join and leave far-right groups?
  • What characterizes far-right “foreign fighters”?
  • What is the relationship between the far right and the media?
  • What explains far-right violence?
  • What are the psychological characteristics of people holding far right beliefs?
  • What role does gender play in the far right?
  • What characterizes anti-gender mobilization? 
  • What can democracies do to prevent extremist violence?

Download the complete 2020-version of the compendium (PDF)

Please note that this version does not contain new entries, such as entries on the far-right and the environment, and on far-right "foreign fighters".

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