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Right-wing Extremism in the Nordic Countries : Analysing Threat Assessments by the Security Police (2024)

Kyllönen, K.-M., & Kotonen, T. (2024). Right-wing Extremism in the Nordic Countries : Analysing Threat Assessments by the Security Police. In R. Gunaratna, & K. Pethö-Kiss (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Far-Right Violence and Extremism (pp. 131-156). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209624.00012

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Kyllönen, Katri-Maaria; Kotonen, Tommi

Parent publication: A Research Agenda for Far-Right Violence and Extremism

Parent publication editors: Gunaratna, Rohan; Pethö-Kiss, Katalin

ISBN: 978-1-80220-961-7

eISBN: 978-1-80220-962-4

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 11/04/2024

Pages range: 131-156

Number of pages in the book: 266

Publisher: Edward Elgar

Place of Publication: Cheltenham

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209624.00012

Publication open access: Not open

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Abstract

The right-wing extremism (RWE) milieu in the Nordic region is arguably becoming increasingly transnational in nature. Nordic groups, networks, and individuals have been inspired by global narratives and have followed their foreign idols. In this chapter, we explore the threat landscape and relevant groups and actors primarily of security police reports from four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The reports were studied following the changing threat assessments caused, among other things, by COVID-19 and most recently by the war in Ukraine. We look into which organisations and actors have been considered most relevant in each country, which kind of activities are expected to cause a threat, and how these threats link to the pan-Nordic movement and also to international far-right activism. The analysis is supplemented with recent academic literature on right-wing extremism in the Nordic countries.

Keywords: extremist movements; right wing movements; far right; radicalisation; political violence; threats; threat perceptions; risk assessment; security police

Free keywords: Evolution of the RWE landscape; Threat assessment; Norway; Finland; Sweden; Denmark

Contributing organizations

Ministry reporting: Yes

Reporting Year: 2024

Preliminary JUFO rating: 2