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George Hawley
The European Roots of the Alt-Right
How Far-Right Ideas Are Going International
Foreign Affairs, 2017
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America’s alt-right is drawing inspiration from re-invigorated far-right movements in Europe.
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The American media depicts the alt-right as a modern reincarnation of earlier US white supremacist movements. But, as political science professor George Hawley explains, the core of the alt-right’s ideals actually come from Europe, where, since the late 1960s, the far right has worked to recast racist and antidemocratic principles as a philosophy-based fight for cultural preservation. getAbstract believes anyone trying to understand the alt-right phenomenon will find this article helpful.
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About the Author
George Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama and the author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right.
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