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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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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/95403
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
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2024
Preliminary JUFO rating: 2