Foreign Policy Essay
Who Really Benefits From Banning White Supremacist Groups?
Bans targeting white supremacist organizations are increasing around the world. Germany's experience demonstrates how these bans can backfire.
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Bans targeting white supremacist organizations are increasing around the world. Germany's experience demonstrates how these bans can backfire.
Introducing a new framework for conceptualizing and categorizing ideologically complex extremists to aid detection, prevention, and deradicalization/disengagement efforts.
A summary of the GWU Program on Extremism report investigating critical infrastructure attacks from domestic violent extremists and homegrown violent extremists since 2016.
Could new Texas and Florida content moderation laws promote extremist activity online?
Ambitious national CVE policies are trapped in a vicious circle that restarts after every major terrorist attack.
Germany is often offered as a model for how a country can reckon with a history of racism, but German leaders' denials about institutional racism demonstrate the limits of its approach.
There’s been an ongoing “sea change” in the U.S. government’s domestic counter-extremism policy, but also on domestic violent extremist actors, groups, and movements themselves.
On Dec. 20, the Pentagon put out a clearer definition of extremist behavior as part of an ongoing effort to combat extremism inside military ranks.
Preventing online radicalization will require a collaborative approach with companies from around the world.
The U.K. proscribed the U.S.-based neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division as a terrorist organization. The move appears to be more for international solidarity and to provide tools to combat online propaganda than one of current and direct operational necessity.