Moving Beyond Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Global Far Right (Analyzing Political Violence)

Traditionally, far-right terrorism has been the black swan of terrorism studies―receiving less attention than Jihadi extremism. In this book, William Allchorn takes a deep dive into multiple geographical locales and the online space of far-right movements, uncovering the crisis narratives that are animating violent far-right extremist milieus and presenting solutions on what we can do to stop them.

Using eight country case studies and the results of an online pilot project, this is the first book-length presentation and discussion of counter techniques to far-right narratives―exploring their effectiveness, the ethics of such techniques, and their ability to disrupt pathways from radicalism towards violent extremism. Coming at a time of a renewed global wave of far-right violence, this book is of use to scholars as well as practitioners in the fields of far-right studies, terrorism studies, and strategic communications.

William Allchorn (PhD, Politics, University of Leeds) is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Associate Director at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK: Policy Responses to the Far Right (Routledge, 2019).