by Luis Sierra | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
It would not be a stretch to call Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro’s actions and comments in line with those of a right-wing populist. He rushed to victory in the 2018 Presidential elections vowing to crack down on rampant violence and improving education...
by Anjali Nahata | May 5, 2019 | University of Chicago
History can be circular in parts of Europe. The divide that has severed Polish politics is very similar to the divide that split France during the Dreyfus affair. The rhetoric employed by the European radical right such as the demand for “revolution against the...
by Kyle Friant | Apr 4, 2019 | Utah State University
Antipathy to liberal democracy has become a staple of the modern incarnation of the Republican Party, a move that is detrimental to the entire international community. In a myriad of examples over the past couple of years, there appears to be a party-wide embrace of...
by Joseph Bodnar | Mar 9, 2019 | American University
General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship attempted to bury Catalan nationalism. After Franco’s death in 1975, Spain attempted to bury Francoism. With Franco’s remains settled in the Valley of the Fallen, a memorial and the largest of the 2,000 Franco-era mass...
by Sabrine Djemil | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
Across Europe and the United States, political commentators are wringing their hands over the meteoric rise of right-wing populist parties. But the wave of right-wing populist sentiment seems to have skipped over one of its likeliest candidates: Spain. How has this...
