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Last month saw more than 900 million eligible voters at the ballot box in the world’s largest democracy. India’s national election once again resulted in the landslide victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Flere tusen menn, kvinner og barn sitter i fangenskap i Syria og Irak etter IS' fall. Hva kan bli skjebnen til disse? Og hvem skal ta ansvaret for dem?

The 2019 European elections are over, and, like every time, there are many more winners than losers. But there are also electoral winners, who are political losers, for now at least.

The established radical right party in Denmark experienced a significant setback in the general election. The main reasons are a combination of mainstream cooptation, radical competitors and an unfavorable political agenda. 

This is a party that embraces Mussolini and Che Guevara — and cartoons and pop culture

The contribution from the Scandinavian far right – the Danish People’s Party (DF) and the Sweden Democrats (SD) – to Salvini's alliance, the European Alliance of People and Nations, is likely to be very small. In short, because DF is losing support and because SD is uninterested in joining.

Sosial bakgrunn og religion påverkar kva parti vi stemmer på. Ny forsking kan gje oss svaret på kvifor. 

Here’s why the way it’s measured matters.

Why do some ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence, or only in particular forms of low-level violence? Why, even in deeply violent groups, are there often thresholds of violence that members rarely if ever cross?

Når nesten 900 millioner indere kan gå til valgurnene, settes det av en drøy måned for å gjennomføre alle etappene. Derfor varer valget fra 11. april til langt ut i mai.

De populistiske høyrepartiene i Europa kjennetegnes av en ideologi preget av mistillit mot de politiske elitene. Denne partifamilien har de siste tiårene gradvis fått mer makt og gått fra å befinne seg i utkanten av det politiske landskapet, til å ha makt ved å sitte i regjering.  Fersk doktor i statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo Atle Hennum Haugsgjerd har funnet ut at høyrepopulistiske partiers inntreden i regjering bygger politisk tillit blant deres støttespillere.

The Christchurch mass murderer acted alone, but the core ideas in his manifesto are widely shared by Islamophobic actors in Europe and beyond, writes Cathrine Thorleifsson on OpenDemocracy.

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Right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe: the RTV dataset documents right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe between 1990 and 2015.

The attack in New Zealand was inspired in part by the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but the real threat is lone wolves lurking in the far corners of the Internet, writes Jacob Aasland Ravndal in Foreign Policy.

This Special Issue on Terrorism from the Extreme Right has been guest-edited by Jacob Aasland Ravndal and Tore Bjørgo, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo.

Politisk innhold trumfer trynefaktor når vi går til stemmeurnene, viser ny studie. Forskerne bak advarer mot å undervurdere velgerne.

Oslo Nuclear Project provides a limited number of stipends (10,000 NOK) for Masters students in the Department of Political Science writing theses on nuclear weapons.

Terrorismeforskere fra ulike fagfelt bør i større grad lese hverandres forskning.

Høyreekstreme i Russland har tatt over syv ganger flere liv enn i Vest-Europa. Likevel fins det lite forskning på høyreekstrem vold i Russland.

Indere i USA og Storbritannia støtter Trump og Brexit

Britiske myndigheter er avhengig av at internettselskaper overholder egne regler for at den ulovlige gruppen National Action skal slutte å spre propaganda.

Department of Political Science congratulates Kacper Szulecki with the Environmental Politics Article of the Year Award 2018

Nord-Korea hadde få insentiver for å komme Trump-administrasjonen i møte, mener UiO-forsker.

As a researcher, I have followed various extreme right groups and movements in Norway and Scandinavia during the last 30 years. There have been some significant changes during this time – changes that have an impact on how our society should relate to such milieus, and what kinds of preventive measures might be relevant and effective.