Strategies of contention. Right-wing extremism and 'counter-state terror' as a threat for western democracies
- This is the fourth article in our series Trouble on the Far-Right. Terror from the extreme right has again gained a wider public attention in 2011 with the devastating attacks carried out by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway and the detection of the right-wing terrorist cell called “National Socialist Underground” (NSU), which had committed ten murders, three bombings and a dozen bank robberies during more than a decade of time in Germany. In many Western countries violence motivated by racism, anti-government hate, anti-Semitism or other aspects of right-wing extremism, appears to be a regular part of criminal activities. Hate crime legislation and statistics vary strongly but show that next to high intense terrorist attacks such as 9/11, the attacks in London, Madrid or Paris, right-wing violence and terrorism is the most dangerous politically motivated threat. In the United States for example Perliger (2012) counted 4,420 right-wing terrorist incidents between 1990 and 2012 causing 670 fatalities and 3,053 injuries. In Germany official statistics counted 69 right-wing attacks between 1990 and 2015 causing 75 casualties, while civil society watchdogs count up to 184 deaths. In Russia some experts speak of approximately 450 right-wing motivated killings between 2004 and 2010. Nevertheless, this specific form of political violence remains largely under-researched and misunderstood as non-terroristic. In consequence the threat from the far right is continuously downplayed with severe consequences for victims and the internal security.
Author: | Daniel Koehler |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-392210 |
URL: | http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/03/23/strategies-of-contention-right-wing-extremism-and-counter-state-terror-as-a-threat-for-western-democracies/ |
Parent Title (German): | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Report |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/03/23 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/03/23 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2016/04/12 |
Tag: | far right; nsu; right-wing extremism; terrorism; violence |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 381146987 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |