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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society , 2006

"In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitl... more "In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler in 1945; yet, the academic debate about its nature is as far from resolution as ever. Besides, a number of developments since 1945 make it ever more desirable that politicians, journalists, lawyers, and the general public can turn to "experts" for a heuristically useful and broadly consensual definition of the term. The novel post-war phenomena include: the emergence of a highly prolific European New Right, the rise of radical right populist parties, the flourishing of ultra-nationalist movements in the former Soviet empire, the radicalization of some currents of Islam and Hinduism into potent political forces, and the upsurge of religious terrorism. This book brings alive the intense controversy the topic has generated, while suggesting valuable heuristic strategies for resolving it. Twenty-nine academics, mostly German but including several prominent experts working in English, were invited by the journal "Erwaegen Wissen Ethik" to engage with an article by Roger Griffin, one of the most influential theorists in the study of generic fascism in the Anglophone world. The result is essential reading for all those who realize the need to provide the term "fascism" with theoretical rigour, analytical precision, and empirical content. The book will change the way in which historians and political scientists think about fascism, and make the discussion on the threat it poses to infant democracies like Russia more incisive not just for academics, but for politicians, journalists, and the wider public.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (with their affiliations as of 2004): David Baker, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick; Jeffrey M. Bale, Assistant Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California; Tamir Bar-On, Professor of Politics and Sociology at George Brown College at Toronto; Alexander De Grand, Professor of History at North Carolina State University; Martin Durham, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Wolverhampton; Roger Eatwell, Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath; Peter Fritzsche, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A. James Gregor, Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley; Roger Griffin, Professor in the History of Ideas at Oxford Brookes University; Siegfried Jäger, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen; Klaus Holz, Director of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. at Villigst, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Aristotle Kallis, Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University; Melitta Konopka, social psychologist at Bochum; Walter Laqueur, Professor Emeritus of History at Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Werner Loh, Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Bärbel Meurer, Professor of Sociology at the University of Osnabrück; Philip Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Hull; Ernst Nolte, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin; Kevin Passmore, Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff, Wales; Stanley G. Payne, Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Friedrich Pohlmann, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau; Karin Priester, Professor of Sociology at the University of Münster; Sven Reichardt, Junior Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz; David D. Roberts, Albert Berry Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia; Alfred Schobert, Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung; Robert J. Soucy, Professor Emeritus of History at Oberlin College, Ohio; Mario Sznajder, Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Andreas Umland, DAAD Lecturer in German Studies at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyïv; Leonard Weinberg, Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada; Jan Weyand is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; Wolfgang Wippermann, Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin."

Talks by Roger Griffin Emeritus Professor in Modern History

Papers by Roger Griffin Emeritus Professor in Modern History

History of Psychiatry, 1990

thoughts beyond the edges of her essays (while considering this book I have kept forgetting the t... more thoughts beyond the edges of her essays (while considering this book I have kept forgetting the title and thinking vaguely it was called something to do with disputed boundaries or uncertain territory, surely a resonance with this sense of the liminal and sliding which is so compellingly evoked). I was similarly provoked by Professor Poovey’s citation of R. Brudenell Carter’s depiction of the speculum

Segle Xx Revista Catalana D Historia, 2013

European History Quarterly, 1995

option seemed to be Papini’s retreat into an apolitical Catholicism and Prezzolini’s moral neutra... more option seemed to be Papini’s retreat into an apolitical Catholicism and Prezzolini’s moral neutrality. Avant-Garde Florence is a well-written, scholarly and intelligent book. Adamson examines his major and minor characters with sympathy and critical judgment. Moreover, he appreciates the dangerous combination put together by Florentine modernist culture: an emphasis on education over active participation in politics, extreme moralism, and acceptance of violence and instinct over reason. But the Florentine critics of the civic

Nationalities Papers

Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, and the worst of all, numerically speaking, Mao Tsetung whose victim... more Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, and the worst of all, numerically speaking, Mao Tsetung whose victims do not add up to tens of millions but hundred of millions of humans. In the latter's case targeted genocide is left far behind, and we find ourselves in the Dantesque realm of democide. As we peruse the numbers with one foot well positioned in the twenty-first century, a nightmarish thought emerges: was the murderous twentieth century quantified by Rummel just as an attribute of that century past, or is it a prelude of things to come in this next century? Are Srebrenica, Rwanda, Chechnya and now Darfur a denouement promising a saner future, or are they omens of things-mass violences-to come? In the work of Rummel we now face not only a confrontation with the past but also a rendezvous with the immediate future. How should we read the tea leaves? The international scene is filled with accruing conflicts that can easily ripen into wholesale genocidal violence. The emerging academic sub-industry of genocide prevention is so far a chimera offering little hope to the millions caught up in the nets of communal strife. The so-called international community displays little mettle to curb multiple instances of strife. More and more minorities find themselves threatened as potential victims. It looks as if sooner than later Rummel's methodological work will warrant similar quantified studies not for the past but for the present and future of man's inhumanity to man. Hovering over all peoples is the likelihood of the full-scale use of weapons of mass destruction.

Die Dynamik der europäischen Rechten, 2011

From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond, 2013

Nations and Nationalism, 2007

European History Quarterly, 2000

European History Quarterly, 2011

Con la colaboración de diecisiete destacados autores de prestigio internacional reconocido, en es... more Con la colaboración de diecisiete destacados autores de prestigio internacional reconocido, en este libro se aborda el estudio de la evolución de la extrema derecha en Europa desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta nuestros días atendiendo a dos criterios: ...

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society , 2006

"In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitl... more "In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler in 1945; yet, the academic debate about its nature is as far from resolution as ever. Besides, a number of developments since 1945 make it ever more desirable that politicians, journalists, lawyers, and the general public can turn to "experts" for a heuristically useful and broadly consensual definition of the term. The novel post-war phenomena include: the emergence of a highly prolific European New Right, the rise of radical right populist parties, the flourishing of ultra-nationalist movements in the former Soviet empire, the radicalization of some currents of Islam and Hinduism into potent political forces, and the upsurge of religious terrorism. This book brings alive the intense controversy the topic has generated, while suggesting valuable heuristic strategies for resolving it. Twenty-nine academics, mostly German but including several prominent experts working in English, were invited by the journal "Erwaegen Wissen Ethik" to engage with an article by Roger Griffin, one of the most influential theorists in the study of generic fascism in the Anglophone world. The result is essential reading for all those who realize the need to provide the term "fascism" with theoretical rigour, analytical precision, and empirical content. The book will change the way in which historians and political scientists think about fascism, and make the discussion on the threat it poses to infant democracies like Russia more incisive not just for academics, but for politicians, journalists, and the wider public.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (with their affiliations as of 2004): David Baker, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick; Jeffrey M. Bale, Assistant Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California; Tamir Bar-On, Professor of Politics and Sociology at George Brown College at Toronto; Alexander De Grand, Professor of History at North Carolina State University; Martin Durham, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Wolverhampton; Roger Eatwell, Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath; Peter Fritzsche, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A. James Gregor, Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley; Roger Griffin, Professor in the History of Ideas at Oxford Brookes University; Siegfried Jäger, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen; Klaus Holz, Director of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. at Villigst, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Aristotle Kallis, Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University; Melitta Konopka, social psychologist at Bochum; Walter Laqueur, Professor Emeritus of History at Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Werner Loh, Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Bärbel Meurer, Professor of Sociology at the University of Osnabrück; Philip Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Hull; Ernst Nolte, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin; Kevin Passmore, Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff, Wales; Stanley G. Payne, Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Friedrich Pohlmann, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau; Karin Priester, Professor of Sociology at the University of Münster; Sven Reichardt, Junior Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz; David D. Roberts, Albert Berry Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia; Alfred Schobert, Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung; Robert J. Soucy, Professor Emeritus of History at Oberlin College, Ohio; Mario Sznajder, Leon Blum Professor of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Andreas Umland, DAAD Lecturer in German Studies at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyïv; Leonard Weinberg, Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada; Jan Weyand is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; Wolfgang Wippermann, Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin."

History of Psychiatry, 1990

thoughts beyond the edges of her essays (while considering this book I have kept forgetting the t... more thoughts beyond the edges of her essays (while considering this book I have kept forgetting the title and thinking vaguely it was called something to do with disputed boundaries or uncertain territory, surely a resonance with this sense of the liminal and sliding which is so compellingly evoked). I was similarly provoked by Professor Poovey’s citation of R. Brudenell Carter’s depiction of the speculum

Segle Xx Revista Catalana D Historia, 2013

European History Quarterly, 1995

option seemed to be Papini’s retreat into an apolitical Catholicism and Prezzolini’s moral neutra... more option seemed to be Papini’s retreat into an apolitical Catholicism and Prezzolini’s moral neutrality. Avant-Garde Florence is a well-written, scholarly and intelligent book. Adamson examines his major and minor characters with sympathy and critical judgment. Moreover, he appreciates the dangerous combination put together by Florentine modernist culture: an emphasis on education over active participation in politics, extreme moralism, and acceptance of violence and instinct over reason. But the Florentine critics of the civic

Nationalities Papers

Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, and the worst of all, numerically speaking, Mao Tsetung whose victim... more Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, and the worst of all, numerically speaking, Mao Tsetung whose victims do not add up to tens of millions but hundred of millions of humans. In the latter's case targeted genocide is left far behind, and we find ourselves in the Dantesque realm of democide. As we peruse the numbers with one foot well positioned in the twenty-first century, a nightmarish thought emerges: was the murderous twentieth century quantified by Rummel just as an attribute of that century past, or is it a prelude of things to come in this next century? Are Srebrenica, Rwanda, Chechnya and now Darfur a denouement promising a saner future, or are they omens of things-mass violences-to come? In the work of Rummel we now face not only a confrontation with the past but also a rendezvous with the immediate future. How should we read the tea leaves? The international scene is filled with accruing conflicts that can easily ripen into wholesale genocidal violence. The emerging academic sub-industry of genocide prevention is so far a chimera offering little hope to the millions caught up in the nets of communal strife. The so-called international community displays little mettle to curb multiple instances of strife. More and more minorities find themselves threatened as potential victims. It looks as if sooner than later Rummel's methodological work will warrant similar quantified studies not for the past but for the present and future of man's inhumanity to man. Hovering over all peoples is the likelihood of the full-scale use of weapons of mass destruction.

Die Dynamik der europäischen Rechten, 2011

From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond, 2013

Nations and Nationalism, 2007

European History Quarterly, 2000

European History Quarterly, 2011

Con la colaboración de diecisiete destacados autores de prestigio internacional reconocido, en es... more Con la colaboración de diecisiete destacados autores de prestigio internacional reconocido, en este libro se aborda el estudio de la evolución de la extrema derecha en Europa desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta nuestros días atendiendo a dos criterios: ...

An International Debate on Concepts and …

Der Band verspricht eine Bestandsaufnahme der Faschismusforschung aus vergleichender Perspektive,... more Der Band verspricht eine Bestandsaufnahme der Faschismusforschung aus vergleichender Perspektive, die um den Faschismus-Begriff von Roger Griffin zentriert ist. Der umfangreiche Diskussionsband wendet sich jedoch vor allem an Wissenschaftler und fortgeschrittene ...

by Lovro Kralj, Roger Griffin Emeritus Professor in Modern History, Goran Miljan, Tomislav Dulic, Miguel Alonso, David Alegre, Javier Rodrigo, Jakub Drábik, Hrubon Anton, Craig Fowlie, Adrien Nonjon, Marco Bresciani, Gabriela Lima, Gabriela de Lima Grecco, Martin Kristoffer Hamre, Blasco Sciarrino, toni Morant i Ariño, Oula Silvennoinen, and Kari Kallioniemi

Program of ComFas Convention. "Comparative Fascist Studies and the transnational Turn" held at th... more Program of ComFas Convention. "Comparative Fascist Studies and the transnational Turn" held at the Central European University, 27-29 April 2018.

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 2018

Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts n... more Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts nearly universally expect to see rising tensions within (and between) countries in the next 5–20 years. Being able to predict future crises and to assess the resilience of different countries to various shocks is of foremost importance in averting the potentially huge human costs of state collapse and civil war. The premise of this paper is that a transdisciplinary approach to forecasting social breakdown, recovery, and resilience is entirely feasible, as a result of recent breakthroughs in statistical analysis of large-scale historical data, the qualitative insights of historical and semiotic investigations, and agent-based models that translate between micro-dynamics of interacting individuals and the collective macro-level events emerging from these interactions. Our goal is to construct a series of probabilistic scenarios of social breakdown and recovery, based on historical crises and outcomes, which can aid the analysis of potential outcomes of future crises. We call this approach—similar in spirit to ensemble forecasting in weather prediction—multipath forecasting (MPF). This paper aims to set out the methodological premises and basic stages envisaged to realize this goal within a transdisciplinary research collaboration: first, the statistical analysis of a massive database of past instances of crisis to determine how actual outcomes (the severity of disruption and violence, the speed of resolution) depend on inputs (economic, political, and cultural factors); second, the encoding of these analytical insights into probabilistic, empirically informed computational models of societal breakdown and recovery—the MPF engine; third, testing the MPF engine to “predict” the trajectories and outcomes of another set of past social upheavals, which were not used in building the model. This “historical retrodiction” is an innovation that will allow us to further refine the MPF technology. Ultimately our vision is to use MPF to help write what we call “a history of possible futures,” in which the near- and medium-term paths of societies are probabilistically forecast.

This paper attempt to explain some of the psychological drivers of political hatred based on a co... more This paper attempt to explain some of the psychological drivers of political hatred based on a conference of psychoanalysts held in Munich in October 2020

The emergence of the ND as heirs of the Conservative Revolution It has been established in the fi... more The emergence of the ND as heirs of the Conservative Revolution It has been established in the first part of this article that Mohler and Evola offered two distinct but complementary conceptual frameworks (though they would prefer the term 'Weltanschauung' or 'visione del mondo') within which to adapt fascism's core values to the inauspicious climate of the postwar era. In particular, they both made it possible i) to uphold fascism's core belief in the basic decadence of socialism and liberal democracy as ideological forces; ii) to account for the defeat of the Rome-Berlin Axis by portraying the two regimes as having travestied the type of new order called for as a solution to the crisis of the modern age, firstly through their demagogy (so that they were insufficiently based on a new spiritual elite), and their myopic nationalism (which made them insufficiently European in scope); iii) thereby to dissociate themselves from the calculated destructiveness and inhumanity of those regimes (in particular the Nazi programmes of euthanasia and attempted genocide), and; iv) to explain both why any sort of 'anti-egalitarian revolution' was no longer imminent while at the same time vindicating the hope that it would ultimately triumph. By celebrating the primacy of culture over politics as the premise to a revolution in the spirit of 'right-wing Gramscism', and by identifying 'spiritually' with the Conservative Revolution (CR) or the Tradition rather than the programme of any political party or terrorist group, right-wing intellects who longed for the transformation of the entire 'system' could now take refuge in

Faschismus. Eine Einführung in die vergleichende Faschismusforschung. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2020

https://www.ibidem.eu/de/faschismus.html ISBN: 9783838213972 Explorations of the Far Right, Vol 7... more https://www.ibidem.eu/de/faschismus.html
ISBN: 9783838213972
Explorations of the Far Right, Vol 7.

Der Begriff „Faschismus“ scheint zu einem Allerweltsbegriff geworden zu sein: Ausgehend von Mussolinis „Faschisten“, übernommen von den Nationalsozialisten unter Hitler, findet er sich heute in nahezu allen politischen Auseinandersetzungen: Trump, Putin, Orbán, Bolsonaro, in Deutschland Höcke, die AfD. Während einige argumentierten, dem Wort „Faschismus“ fehle es an jeglicher charakteristischen, begrifflichen Bedeutung, liefern andere ausführliche Definitionen seiner –vermeintlich oder tatsächlich – wesentlichen Merkmale. Es handelt sich zweifelsohne um einen Begriff, dessen genaue Bestimmung eine einzigartige Herausforderung darstellt. Roger Griffin, einer der führenden Experten auf dem Gebiet der Faschismusforschung, analysiert mit einzigartiger begrifflicher Klarheit und zugleich sehr lesbar die Ideologie des Faschismus. Eingeleitet und übersetzt von Martin Kristoffer Hamre. Mit einem Geleitwort von Andreas Kemper und einem Nachwort von Fabian Virchow.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, 2018

Fascism , 2021

Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump's politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many e... more Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump's politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate 'Donald Trump and Fascism Studies' we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within fascism studies, to offer thoughts on how to consider the complex relationship between fascism, the politics of Donald Trump, and the wider maga movement. Contributors to this debate are: Mattias Gardell, Ruth Wodak, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, David Renton, Nigel Copsey, Raul Cârstocea, Maria Bucur, Brian Hughes, and Roger Griffin.