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Supervision

At present his principal research interests are:

1. i) the theory of and comparative study of fascism, its adaptation to unique historical situations; and its evolution as it continues to adapt to transformations in the socio-political structures and various threats to democracy or traditional values in modern society; and its relationship to radical right wing populism and to violence inspired by the struggle to achieve the independence of a national homeland, the realization of a utopia, or religious extremism as obstacles to the emergence of a sustainable, humane, global community.
2. ii) the origins of terrorism in both concrete socio-political circumstances and (at least in some cases) in the malaise of modernity and the quest for preserving/attaining transcendental meaning and the sacred in a secularizing world.

iii) political (programmatic) modernism in the form of all totalitarian ideologies and its relationship to aesthetic modernism, the dynamics of terrorism, and (transcultural) humanism in the modern age.

1. iv) transcultural humanism (secular or religious) as a historical and contemporary force, conceived as a 'mirror' of extremism, racism and various forms of social exclusion and the basis for genuine multiculturalism and tolerance (rather than ‘British’ or ‘European’ values)
2. v) The dynamics of radicalization and the task of deradicalization conceived as a form of reradicalization in the spirit of activist transcultural humanism.

Increasingly Roger Griffin is concerned with the practical application of his insights into the dynamics of fanatical violence in counter-radicalization and counter-terrorist policies. His theory of 'heroic doubling' was cited in the prosecution case against Anders Breivik and has attracted the attention of international counter-terrorist agencies. Another application (the AVATAR project) is under development, namely the creation on the basis of a large selection of profiles actual terrorists understood through the lens of ‘heroic doubling’, of a prognostic database for use by counter-terrorism forces to help identify potential in collaboration with a major UK expert in the use of IT for security purposes

 

Research group membership

network associated with the journal Fascism and its affiliated association COMFAS

the terrorism research group International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation based in King's College, London

the centre for the study of totalitarianism and extremism based in Olso University

Research grants and awards

Awarded Honorary Doctorate by University of Leuven (2011) for sercices to the comparative study of fascism

 

various grants including British Academy and ESRC grants to write Modernism and Fascism (2008)

Research projects

Three major projects at present (Oct 2017):

1.  Research programme to provide basis for a major mobograph on the historical impact of different concepts and realituies of the self in modern western history (Double trouble: How Alter Egos Alter History (and Can Save Humanity)

2.  Ongoing work on AVATAR project to create (through collboration with expert in cybersecurity and IT, as well as Kafka) a prognostic database incorporating insights drawn from my work on heroic doubling.

3. Contribution to the founding and rnning of COMFAS, association for the comparative study of fascism

Research impact

Further research dissemination

In the last 30 years Roger Griffin has given numerous talks at History Association evenings, staff seminars, and sixth-form conferences in Britain. For example, he was interviewed about fascism on Hamburg local radio (Freies Sender Kombinat) and about Bush's use of the term Islamo-Fascism by The New York Times, as well as being consulted about aspects of fascism (e.g. Joerg Haider's death and the rise of the radical right in Austria, the 'new' BNP under Nick Griffin) and populism (e.g. by the Canadian radio station CBC, and by the Pan European Forum organized by Cheuvreux). In the wake of the Anders Breivik attack in Norway he gave various interviews to the media on terrorism, including a talk on the psychological dynamics of Breivik at a public discussion of terrorism held in Oslo in February 2012. In the last 25 years Roger Griffin has given numerous talks at History Association evenings, staff seminars, and sixth-form conferences in Britain. He was interviewed about fascism on Hamburg local radio (Freies Sender Kombinat) and about Bush's use of the term Islamo-Fascism by The New York Times, as well as being consulted about aspects of fascism (e.g. Joerg Haider's death and the rise of the radical right in Austria, the 'new' BNP under Nick Griffin) and populism (e.g. by the Canadian radio station CBC, and by the Pan European Forum organized by Cheuvreux). He is regularly interviewed by the London radio station LBC in connection with terrorist attacks or threats, and in the wake of the Anders Breivik attack in Norway he gave various interviews to the media on terrorism, including a talk on the psychological dynamics of Breivik at a public discussion of terrorism held in Oslo in February 2012.

His major forum for dissemination of his theories since 1989 is a long series of over 90 national and international talks, workshops and conference papers/keynotes, which have taken him to over 30 different countries world-wide, and particularly to Romania, Hungary, Norway, Spain and Holland, but also the US (Wisconsin, Albuquerque, Baltimore, Minneapolis), Argentina, Seoul, Croatia, Slovakia, and Sweden. He provided the keynote on the need for a new, non-Eurocentric Enlightenment to an international Liberal Arts conference held in Qatar by the University Texas (2017), and has given interviews to the press agencies and magazines based in the US, the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and South Korea.

He has also given over 60 talks to school history societies or sixth form/A-level students studying politics or history relating to extremism.

The text book Fascism: An Introduction to Comparative Fascist studies for Polity's Key concepts in Political thought to be published in 2018, and his work for the journal ifascism iand for the new association COMFAS are conceived to act as a major vehicles for the continuing dissemination of the working definition of fascism provided in The Nature of Fascism (1991) which has now achieved a global presence if not hegemony within fascist studies.

Books

• Griffin, RD, Fascism: An Introduction to Comparative Fascist Studies, Polity Press (2018)
  ISBN: 9781509520671 eISBN: 9781509520695
  Abstract The word fascism sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have supplied highly elaborate definitions of its essential features. It is therefore a concept that presents unique challenges for any student of political theory or history. In this accessible book, Roger Griffin, one of the world s leading authorities on fascism, brings welcome clarity to this controversial ideology. He examines its origins and development as a political concept, from its historical beginnings in 1920s Italy up to the present day, and guides students through the confusing maze of debates surrounding the nature, definition and meaning of fascism. Elucidating with skill and precision its dynamic as a utopian ideology of national/racial rebirth, Griffin goes on to examine its post-Second World War mutations and its relevance to understanding contemporary right-wing political phenomena, ranging from Marine Le Pen to Golden Dawn. This concise and engaging volume will be of great interest to all students of political theory, the history of political thought, and modern history.Website 
• Griffin R, Terrorist's creed: fanatical violence and the human need for meaning, Palgrave Macmillan (2012)
  ISBN: 9780230241299 eISBN: 9781137284723
  Abstract In the tsunami of publications on terrorism which followed 9/11, few have probed effectively into the deeper layers of motivation that enable normal human beings to carry out such unimaginable acts. Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence. Drawing on sociology, psychology, novels and films, it shows how the need to defend or create a territorial or purely cultural 'home' in an unforgiving universe can precipitate a process of 'heroic doubling' which in extreme circumstances legitimates murder and suicide for the sake of a 'higher' cause.Website 
• Griffin R, Modernismo y fascismo: la sensacion de comienzo bajo Mussolini y Hitler, Akal (2010)
  ISBN: 9788446029724
  Abstract Se suele afirmar que el fascismo es un fenomeno antimoderno, enemigo declarado de la autentica cultura. De acuerdo con esta premisa, el Tercer Reich, en su barbarie, habria acabado con el modernismo, y el fascismo italiano habria utilizado cinicamente a la vanguardia artistica y a la elite tecnocrata para lograr sus propositos reaccionarios. Sin embargo en este libro Roger Griffin ofrece un retrato convincente del fascismo en cuanto expresion «total» de modernismo por derecho propio. Como si de un cuadro modernista se tratara, este ambicioso libro transforma nuestra comprension del arte, de la tecnologia, del espiritu social y de la politica de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Ademas, la edicion espanola cuenta con un prologo de Stanley G. Payne, uno de los historiadores hispanistas de mayor relevancia a nivel mundial.
• Griffin R, Feldman M (ed), A fascist century : Essays by Roger Griffin, Palgrave Macmillan (2008)
  ISBN: 9780230220898 eISBN: 9780230594135
  Abstract A Fascist Century is actually two books in one. First, it is a collection of 10 essays (nearly all printed here for the first time in English) by one of the world's foremost experts in the nature and evolution of fascism. These illuminate some of its most significant aspects, notably its attempted temporal and anthropological revolution, the dynamics of Nazism as the most virulent manifestation of 'palingenesis', and its postwar development away from interwar paradigms. Second, the preface, extensive introduction and concluding discussion between author and editor provide penetrating insights into the evolution of Griffin's thinking between his two seminal monographs, The Nature of Fascism (1991) and Modernism and Fascism (2007). Thanks also to the varying academic register and length of the pieces, this functions both as a multifaceted contribution to fascist studies and as a primer in the nature of contemporary historiographical debates.Website 
• Griffin R, Modernism and fascism: the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler, Palgrave Macmillan (2007)
  ISBN: 9781403987846
  Abstract Intellectual debates surrounding modernity, modernism and fascism continue to be active and hotly contested. In this ambitious book, renowned expert on fascism Roger Griffin analyzes Western modernity and the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler and offers a pioneering new interpretation of the links between these apparently contradictory phenomena.
• Griffin R, The nature of fascism, Routledge (1993)
  ISBN: 9780415096614
  Abstract The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism, but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere, and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent (but thus far successfully marginalized) fascist activism since 1945.

Journal articles

• Griffin R, 'Building the Visible Immortality of the Nation: The Centrality of ‘Rooted Modernism’ to the Third Reich’s Architectural New Order'
  Fascism 7 (1) (2018) pp.9-44
  ISSN: 2211-6249 eISSN: 2211-6257
  Abstract This article sets out to contribute conceptual clarity to the growing recognition of the modern and futural dynamic behind fascist cultural projects by focusing on projects for architectural renewal under the Third Reich. It starts by reviewing the gradual recognition of the futural temporality of the regime’s culture. It then introduces the concept ‘rooted modernism’ and argues for its application not only to the vernacular idioms of some of the Reich’s new buildings, but also to the International Style and machine aesthetic deployed in many Nazi technological and industrial buildings. The article’s main focus is on the extensive use made in the new civic and public architecture under Nazism (and Fascism) of ‘stripped classicism’. This was a form of neo-classicism widely encountered in both democratic and authoritarian states throughout the inter-war period, and which can be understood as an alternative strand of architectural modernism co-existing with more overtly avant-garde experiments in reshaping the built environment. The case is then made for applying a new conceptual framework for evaluating the relationship to modernity and modernism of architectural projects, not just in fascist cultural production, but that of the many authoritarian right-wing regimes of the period which claimed to embrace the national past while striving for a dynamic, heroic future. This opens up the possibility for historians to engage with the complex cultural entanglements and histoires croisées of revolutionary with modernizing conservative states in the ‘fascist era’.Website 
• Griffin R, 'The role of heroic doubling in terrorist radicalisation: a non-psychiatric perspective'
  International Review of Psychiatry 29 (4) (2017) pp.355-361
  ISSN: 0954-0261 eISSN: 1369-1627
  Abstract The psychiatrist Robert Lifton developed his model of ‘doubling’ to account for the capacity of some human beings to commit atrocities in one compartment of their lives, while continuing to maintain normal social relations in their domestic sphere, a phenomenon which he encountered both in interviews with former Nazi doctors working in concentration camps, and with terrorists belonging to the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult. By supplementing this model with a theory of heroization based on existential anthropology and Jung’s concept of the Shadow, a composite heuristic explanatory paradigm is formed, ‘heroic doubling’, which may contribute to the empathetic understanding of acts of extreme violence being carried out by individuals who do not present symptoms of psychiatric disorder and maintain normal existences, yet are prepared to kill and be killed for a cause that confers on their lives a sense of transcendent purpose and sacrality.Website 
• Griffin R, 'From Weimar modernism to Nazi modernism? [Contribution to: Intellectual and artistic responses to early fascism : the historians’ perspective]'
  German Quarterly 90 (3) (2017) pp.349-363
  ISSN: 0016-8831
  Website 
• Griffin, RD, 'Fascism’s Modernist Revolution: A New Paradigm for the Study of Right-wing Dictatorships'
  Fascism 5 (2) (2016) pp.105-129
  ISSN: 2211-6249 eISSN: 2211-6257
  Abstract This article highlights the progress that has been made within fascist studies from seeing ‘fascist culture’ as an oxymoron, and assuming that it was driven by a profound animus against modernity and aesthetic modernism, to wide acceptance that it had its own revolutionary dynamic as a search for a Third Way between liberalism and communism, and bid to establish an alternative, rooted modern culture. Building logically on this growing consensus, the next stage is to a) accept that modernism is legitimately extended to apply to radical experimentation in society, economics, politics, and material culture; b) realize that seen from this perspective each fascism was proposing its own variant of modernism in both a socio-political and aesthetic sense, and that c) right-wing regimes influenced by fascism produced their own experiments in developing both a modern political regime and cultural modernism grounded in a unique national history.Website 
• Griffin R, 'Fixing Solutions: Fascist Temporalities as Remediesfor Liquid Modernity'
  Journal of Modern European History 13 (1) (2015) pp.5-23
  ISSN: 1611-8944
  Abstract This article explores the peculiar temporalities of fascism that emanate from the myth of the eternity of the nation and race that is perpetuated through superhuman, self-sacrificial efforts on their behalf within historical time. It focuses on the role played by modernity as an agent of the liquefaction of reality into a perpetual open-ended flux (experienced as decadence and decline), and the attempt by Fascism and Nazism to fix the contours of historical time and restore its shape and purpose through the power of totalitarian organisation, political religion and the manipulation of palingenetic myth. Members of the fascists' organic national community were thus exhorted both overtly and subliminally to find a personal transcendent meaning and sense of heroic mission through their active participation in the process of national rebirth. The fascist rebellion against the disenchanted temporality of modernity is located within modernist attempts, not only in every sphere of cultural production, but also in experimental forms of socio-political activism and organisation, to create a barrier against the rising flood of disenchantment, relativism and nihilism arising from modernity.Website 
• Griffin R, 'Decentering Comparative Fascist Studies'
  Fascism 4 (2) (2015) pp.103-118
  ISSN: 2211-6249
  Abstract This article challenges a tendency that grew up in fascist studies in the 1930s to treat Fascism and Nazism as the only authentic expressions of fascism, and to evaluate and understand all other manifestations of the generic force as more or less derivative of them and hence of secondary importance when understanding ‘the nature of fascism’ as an ideology. This has created an artificial location of each fascism as being either at the core or periphery of the phenomenon, and has reinforced a Eurocentrism that leads to parallel movements in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa to be neglected. It calls for wider acceptance of the realization that researching movements that did not seize autonomous power, such as the Croatian Ustasha, the Romanian Iron Guard, or the Transylvanian Saxons, can enrich understanding of aspects of Fascism and Nazism, such as the role of racism, eugenics, anti-Semitism and organized Christianity in determining the ideological contents ad fate of a particular fascism.Website 
• Griffin R, 'From Slime Mould to Rhizome: An Introduction to the Groupuscular Right'
  Patterns of Prejudice 37 (1) (2010) pp.27-50
  ISSN: 0031-322X eISSN: 1461-7331
  Website 
• Griffin R, 'Consensus ? Quel consensus ? : perspectives pour une meilleure entente entre spécialistes francophones et anglophones du fascisme'
  VingtiÈme SiÈcle 108 (-) (2010) pp.53-69
  ISSN: 0294-1759 eISSN: 1950-6678
  Abstract In this article Roger Griffin sets out not to rekindle the sometimes heated discussion (often conducted in the pages of Vingtieme Siecle. Revue d' histoire) about whether fascism was a marginal phenomenon in the Third Republic, but rather stimulate a radical revision to the way the debate is framed. As in France, Anglophone scholarship too was for decades deeply divided on fascism" s defining properties. However, from the early 1990s a convergence emerged on a model/ideal type that in different formulations emphasizes fascism utopian bid, both ideological and practical, to regenerate and revolutionize the organically (and sometimes racially) conceived nation allegedly threatened by the forces of decadence. Furthermore, this -new consensus- is subsumed within a wave of international, interdisciplinary scholarship on various aspects of the revolutionary dynamics of totalitarianism which was actually anticipated by certain French historians. This creates the exciting prospect that the specialism as a whole might be enriched if fascism were -œrevisited- in a spirit of greater entente between them and their Anglophone colleagues.Website 
• Griffin R, 'Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A "mazeway resynthesis"'
  Modernism/modernity 15 (1) (2008) pp.9-24
  ISSN: 1071-6068
  Abstract A "mazeway resynthesis" Roger Griffin Fascism and modernism: finding the "big picture" Researchers combing through back numbers of this journal in search of authoritative guidance to the relationship between modernity, modernism, and fascism could be forgiven for occasionally losing their bearings. In one of the earliest issues they will alight upon Emilio Gentile's article tracing the paternity of early Fascism to the campaign for a "modernist nationalism" which was launched in the 1900s by Italian avant-garde artists and intellectuals fanatical about providing the catalyst to a national program of radical modernization. They will also come across the eloquent case made by Peter Fritzsche for the thesis that there was a distinctive "Nazi modern," that the Third Reich embodied an extreme, uncompromising form of political modernism, a ruthless bid to realize an alternative vision of modernity whatever the human cost. But closer to the present they will encounter Lutz Koepnik's sustained argument that the aesthetics of fascism reflected its aspiration "to subsume everything under the logic of a modern culture industry, hoping to crush the emancipatory substance of modern life through modern technologies themselves" (62). Yet more...Website 
• Griffin R, 'Shattering Crystals: the Role of Dream Time in Extreme Right-wing Political Violence'
  Terrorism and Political Violence 15 (2004) pp.57-95
  ISSN: 0954-6553 eISSN: 1556-1836
  Abstract This article prepares the conceptual ground for a new heuristic approach to understanding acts of political violence that consciously incur the risk of death to their perpetrators. It focuses on the deep-seated human drive to escape the futility and emptiness induced by clock-time (chronos), and the way a sense of being ‘chosen’ for a mission of destruction can precipitate the experience of being reborn in a new supraindividual dimension (‘dream time’). At this point the etymological connotations of ‘self-sacrifice’ and ‘fanatic’ acquire a new significance, since the personal palingenesis experienced by the soldier or terrorist confronting death may rehearse archetypal patterns of mystic purification and immortality. This ‘chrono-ethological’ perspective on extreme political violence is elaborated by considering the devastating impact that Western modernity has had on the access to states of ‘self-transcendence’ available in traditional religious culture. It is then applied to examples of inter-war fascist paramilitarism and contemporary ‘lone-wolf’ terrorism.Website 
• Griffin R, 'The Incredible Shrinking Ism: the Survival of Fascism in the Post-fascist Era'
  Patterns of Prejudice 36 (3) (2002) pp.3-8
  ISSN: 0031-322X eISSN: 1461-7331
  Website 
• Griffin R, 'Net Gains and Gud Reactions: Patterns of Prejudice in a Neo-fascist Groupuscule'
  Patterns of Prejudice 33 (1999) pp.31-50
  ISSN: 0031-322X eISSN: 1461-7331
  Website 
• Griffin R, 'Party Time - the Temporal Revolution of the Third Reich'
  History Today 49 (1999) pp.43-49
  ISSN: 0018-2753
  
• Griffin R, 'Integration and Identification : Conflicting Aspects of the Human-need for Self-transcendence Within Ideological Communities'
  History of European Ideas 18 (1994) pp.11-23
  ISSN: 0191-6599 eISSN: 1873-541X
  Website 
• Griffin R, 'Revolts Against the Modern World - the Blend of Literary and Historical Fantasy in the Italian New Right'
  Literature and History 11 (1985) pp.101-123
  ISSN: 0306-1973
  

Book chapters

• Griffin R, 'The future duce as futurist: Marinetti’s appendix to Antonio Beltramelli’s L’Uomo nuovo (Benito Mussolini)' in Sascha Bru, Luca Somigli & Bart Van Den Bossche (ed.), Futurism : a microhistory, Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association (2017)
  ISBN: 9781781884850 eISBN: 9781781884874
  
• Griffin R, 'La Revolución Modernista del Fascismo: Un Nuevo Pradigma para El Estudio de las Dictaduras de Derechas = Fascism’s Modernist Revolution: A New Paradigm for the Study of Right-wing Dictatorships' in Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel del Cobo Romero, Francisco Hernández Burgos, Claudio (ed.), Fascismo y Modernismo: Política y Cultura en La Europa de Extreguerras, Comares (2016)
  ISBN: 9788490454572 (Spanish)
  
• Griffin R, 'Who Were The Nazis? Thoughts on the Mass Conversion to Nazism after 1929' in Brandal N, Thorsen DE (ed.), Den dannede opprører: Bernt Hagtvet 70 år, Dreyers Forlag Oslo (2016)
  ISBN: 9788282651684
  
• Griffin R, 'The Legitimizing Role of Palingenetic Myth in Ideocracies' in Backes U Kailitz S (ed.), Ideocracies in Comparison: Legitimation - Cooptation - Repression, Routledge (2015)
  ISBN: 9781138848856 eISBN: 9781317535447
  Abstract https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317535454/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315725925-24
  This chapter will explore the thesis that spontaneous, non-coerced popular enthusiasm for the revolutionary aspirations of an ideocracy, both before and after the seizure of power, has been crucial for the perceived legitimation of several major totalitarian movements and regimes in the modern age. For the purposes of this analysis, the connotations of the suffix “cracy” are taken to be those of theocracy, autocracy, and ethnocracy, thus suggesting a political system dominated by the primacy of a particular idea (a totalizing vision or grand récit) of historical development which serves as the basis for realizing a new society and even for founding a new historical era. This usage corresponds to how the term “ideocracy” is used in the only Anglophone monograph on the topic to date, which defines it as “a political system whose activities are pursued in reference to the tenets of a monistic ideology,” thus directly contrasting with pluralistic democracy.
• Griffin R, 'An Unholy Alliance? The converegence between revealed religion and sacralized politics in inter-war Europe' in Nelis J Praet D Morelli A (ed.), Catholicism and Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, Georg Olms Verlag (2015)
  ISBN: 9783487152431
  
• Griffin R, 'Terrorism and Modernity' in Law R (ed.), The Routledge History of Terrorism, Routledge (2015)
  ISBN: 9780415535779
  
• Griffin R, 'Fascism' in Claeys G (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, SAGE Publications, Ltd. (2013)
  ISBN: 9780872899100 eISBN: 9781452234168 |
  Website 
• Griffin R, 'Political modernism and the cultural production of "Personalities of the Right" in inter-war Europe' in In the shadow of Hitler: personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe, I.B.Tauris (2011)
  ISBN: 9781845116972
  Abstract Many important right-wing political figures from the late nineteenth century and inter-war period have been over-shadowed in history by Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. Rebecca Haynes here assesses the careers of seventeen of the most important figures in right-wing politics in Central and Eastern Europe during this period and reveals the significance of leaders whose impact has been overlooked. Some of these were Nazi-sympathisers; others rejected German National Socialism in favour of rival nationalist and right-wing ideologies and programmes. But all played a role in modern European political history that cannot be ignored. This book seeks to draw some of the leading right-wing politicians and thinkers in Central and Eastern Europe out from under Hitler's shadow.
• Griffin R, 'Alien Influence: Contextualising the 'Modernised' BNP' in British National Party Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge (2011)
  ISBN: 9780415483841
  Abstract This book examines the recent development of the far right in Britain, with a particular focus on the British National Party (BNP) the most electorally successful far right party in British history. It brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of the BNP in order to make a significant contribution to scholarly debate on the nature of far right extremism both nationally and internationally. The book is significantly different from other literature in the field primarily because of its focus on three important yet underdeveloped themes, which are reflected in the structure of the book itself. These are: * the ideological and cultural politics of contemporary BNP * responses to the BNP * the BNP's place within the contemporary domestic and international far-right milieu. Written by an outstanding line-up of renowned experts in this field, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in British politics, fascism, political parties, race relations and extremism.
• Griffin R, 'The multiplication of man: futurism's technolatry viewed through the lens of modernism' in Futurism and the technological imagination, Rodopi (2009)
  ISBN: 9789042027473
  Abstract Having highlighted the passage in Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism describing an impromptu nocturnal joy-ride in the country lanes near Milan, the chapter focuses on the epiphanic nature of this experience as the revelation not just of a new aesthetic but a new moral universe and a new secular mysticism. It argues that the Nietzschean bid to overcome nihilism has been projected by Marinetti onto the latest technologies of speed to the point where they are identified with the capacity to overcome the conventional bounds of time and space. This is followed by an excursus on modernism which interprets it in the light of social anthropology as a mythopoeic, life-asserting response to the threat of radical anomie posed by secularizing modernity. The thesis explored is that such a response is driven by the primordial human need for a 'sacred canopy' which is the wellspring of all culture. In times of crisis this need can manifest itself in the form of a revitalization movement following a shamanic propheta who enacts a process of 'ludic recombination' in creating a new tablet of values or 'mazeway'. In the light of this analysis, Futurism's technolatry emerges as an outstanding example of programmatic modernism, and the composition of the first Futurist manifesto is revealed to be a typically modern act of 'mazeway resynthesis' carried out by Marinetti as a later-day propheta. The chapter ends by contrasting Marinetti's fanatically cultic vision of the motor-car with the no less ecstatic one experienced by Toad in The Wind in the Willows, which Kenneth Grahame presents as a pathology to be cured.
• Griffin R, 'The origins of the post war right' in The far right in Europe: an encyclopedia, Greenwood (2008)
  ISBN: 9781846450037
  Abstract An encyclopedic survey of the vigorous far-right tradition in Europe, focusing on the myriad groupings of today, but also tracing their historical roots, and debating the key issues and themes. The book is an all-embracing survey of far-right politics in Europe: origins, development and impact. It is split into two main sections, part 1 comprising a number of longer essays on national traditions, themes etc., part 2 incorporating shorter entries on specific topics (arranged A-Z), such as movements, people, events, issues, locations, publications, etc. Taken together, the articles and entries in the encyclopedia confirm that the far right in Europe remains a significant force across many countries, all the more powerful for having such powerful historical antecedents. Drawing on both the judgement of commentators and the statements of key political players themselves, The Far Right in Europe offers both reliable information and stimulating debate. The opening section of articles, each around 10,000 words long, outlines the far right traditions in key regions of Europe - (1) Western Europe, (2) Scandinavia, (3) Central Europe, (4) Eastern Europe, (5) Southern Europe and (6) the Balkans - and debates key concepts such as: the Origins of the Far Right; the Development of the Far Right; the Ideology of the Far Right; the Far Right and Foreign Policy; the Far Right and Economics; and the Xenophobia of the Far Right. The shorter entries which follow offer precise, up-to-date information on movements, people, events, issues, locations and key publications.
• Griffin R, 'Introduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion' in The Sacred in Twentieth-Century Politics , Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (2008)
  ISBN: 9780230537743
  Abstract September 11th 2001 brought the entire question of religion's place in modern political ideology into sharp focus. Yet in effect this dysfunctional symbiosis had already been a feature of the international landscape for many decades. Scholars such as Eric Voeglin and Raymond Aron, to name but a few, delineated and assessed the way in which regime types such as Stalin's Soviet Union, Mussolini's fascist Italy and Hitler's Nazi Germany assumed quasi religious forms, substituting an omnipotent divine being with a corporeal and illuminated leader, as early as the 1920s and 1930s. But it is only recently that academic attention has returned with a vengeance to examine the manner in which revolutionary movements frequently adopt a religious form, or even hijack existing mainstream faiths in order to pursue a frequently brutal and violent political agenda based on sweeping social and individual transformation along the lines of official dogma and doctrine. This volume, dedicated to the great scholar of fascism and the Iberian world, Professor Stanley G. Payne, aims to emulate his spirit of enquiry by offering a new series of theoretical and case study analyses of the 'sacred' dimension of politics in the modern era. An international team of highly respected scholars examines the political religion and politicised religion concepts on a truly global basis, bringing together considerable knowledge and experience in one volume. Both the 'totalitarian' regimes of the mid-twentieth century and other political forms such as Castroism, Hindutva, Missiology and American Apocalypticism are all discussed in provocative and detailed essays. Together they offer readers the first ever comprehensive judgement on the continuing importance of the sacred within the political in the modern era.
• Griffin R, 'Exploding the continuum of history: A non-Marxist's Marxist model of fascism's revolutionary dynamics' in A Fascist Century : Essays by Roger Griffin, Palgrave Macmillan (2008)
  ISBN: 9780230220898 eISBN: 9780230594135
  Abstract A Fascist Century is actually two books in one. First, it is a collection of 10 essays (nearly all printed here for the first time in English) by one of the world's foremost experts in the nature and evolution of fascism. These illuminate some of its most significant aspects, notably its attempted temporal and anthropological revolution, the dynamics of Nazism as the most virulent manifestation of 'palingenesis', and its postwar development away from interwar paradigms. Second, the preface, extensive introduction and concluding discussion between author and editor provide penetrating insights into the evolution of Griffin's thinking between his two seminal monographs, The Nature of Fascism (1991) and Modernism and Fascism (2007). Thanks also to the varying academic register and length of the pieces, this functions both as a multifaceted contribution to fascist studies and as a primer in the nature of contemporary historiographical debates.Website 
• Griffin R, 'Non Angeli, sed Angli: the neo-populist foreign policy of the 'new' BNP' in Europe for the Europeans The Foreign and Security Policy of the Populist Radical Right , Ashgate (2007)
  ISBN: 9780754648512
  Abstract For the last two decades the number of political organizations on the far right, neo-populist right and neo-conservative right has been growing. Along with the mounting electoral success for many of the parties there has also been a growing disenchantment with the political class which has led to a revolt against the current political 'establishment'. The events of September 11, 2001 and the 'War on Terror' have further aggravated tensions within the populations between those who feel they are the 'legitimate' citizens of the state and those who are considered 'outsiders'. The recent expansion of the EU's borders has also brought on fears of a surge of both legal and illegal immigration. All these factors have led to a growing number of cases of harassment and outbursts of violence aimed at asylum seekers and ethnic minorities in Europe. This book measures the effects of neo-populist groups on the current political establishment and illustrates how much political appeal neo-populist views have on making current political policy.

Conference papers

• Griffin R, 'Introduction: the Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion'
  (2011) pp.1-18
  ISBN: 9780230537743
  Abstract Johann Goethe once claimed that ‘great events throw their shadow before them’. Perhaps it is the instinct of scholars in the human sciences to work where the light is strongest that explains why some of the major, formative processes of modern history have been added so belatedly and hurriedly to the repertoire of legitimate research topics. It was only towards the end of the nineteenth century that the pioneers of sociology engaged intelligently with the impact of industrialisation and what has come to be known as ‘modernity’, long after countless writers and artists had started investigating its ominous spiritual fallout with visionary clarity. Subsequently, such epoch-forming phenomena as the rise of socialism and ‘the masses’, nationalism, Bolshevism, fascism, anti-colonialism, the counter-culture of the 1960s, and ecologism have entered the West’s historical consciousness by stealth rather than in the full glare of academic analysis.Website 

Reviews

• Griffin R, review of Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy, in European History Quarterly 41 (2011) pp.164-166ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
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• Griffin R, review of Italian Neofascism: the Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation, in 44 (2010) pp.397-400
• Griffin R, review of European Aristocracies and the Radical Right, 1918-1939, in English Historical Review 123 (2009) pp.1596-1597ISSN: 0013-8266
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• Griffin R, review of The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, in English Historical Review 124 (2009) pp.1535-1539ISSN: 0013-8266
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• Griffin R, review of The Extreme Right in France: From Petain to Le Pen, in French Studies 62 (2008) pp.374-374ISSN: 0016-1128
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• Griffin R, review of Burning Books and Leveling Libraries : Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, in Terrorism and Political Violence 20 (2) (2008) pp.310-312ISSN: 0954-6553 eISSN: 1556-1836
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• Griffin R, review of Mussolinis Italy., in 14 (2007) pp.171-173
• Griffin R, review of The Russian Roots of National Socialism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 917-1945., in Slavonic and East European Review 85 (2007) pp.358-360ISSN: 0037-6795
  
• Griffin R, review of Mussolinis Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought., in American Historical Review 110 (2006) pp.1625-1626ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
  
• Griffin R, review of Contemporary British Fascism: the British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy., in 39 (2005) pp.75-77Website 
• Griffin R, review of Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy., in Modernism/modernity 12 (2005) pp.537-539ISSN: 1071-6068
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• Griffin R, review of The Anatomy of Fascism., in American Historical Review 109 (2005) pp.1530-1531ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
  
• Griffin R, review of Fascism and the Right in Europe, 1919-1945, in Patterns of Prejudice 37 (2) (2004) pp.216-219ISSN: 0031-322X
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• Griffin R, review of Italy's Social Revolution : Charity and Welfare From Liberalism to Fascism, in Social History of Medicine 17 (1) (2004) pp.147-149ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
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• Griffin R, review of Reformism and Fascism, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8 (2004) pp.621-625ISSN: 1354-571X eISSN: 1469-9583
  
• Griffin R, review of The Religions of Politics. From Democracy to Totalitarianism, in 37 (2004) pp.444-447
• Griffin R, review of Feminine Fascism. Women in Britains Fascist Movement 1923-1945, in European History Quarterly 32 (2003) pp.614-618ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Encyclopedia of White Power: a Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right., in 36 (2002) pp.60-62
• Griffin R, review of A Primer of Italian Fascism, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of The Fascist Revolution: Towards a General Theory Fascism, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Theatre Under the Nazis, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of The Primacy of Culture: the Current Growth (or Manufacture) of Consensus Within Fascist Studies, in Journal of Contemporary History 37 (2002) pp.21-43ISSN: 0022-0094
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• Griffin R, review of Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of British Fascism, 1918-1939: Parties, Ideology and Culture, in European History Quarterly 31 (2002) pp.609-621ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Haeckels Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, in English Historical Review 116 (2001) pp.683-685ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of Fascist Modernities: Italy 1922-1945, in Journal of Jewish Studies 52 (2001) pp.389-391ISSN: 0022-2097
  
• Griffin R, review of The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia., in American Historical Review 106 (2001) pp.685-686ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
  
• Griffin R, review of Fascisim and Antifascism - Italian Parties During the Interwar Period, in 35 (2001) pp.77-79
• Griffin R, review of Between the Swastika and the Cross of Lorraine: Fascisms in Interwar Alsace., in American Historical Review 106 (2001) pp.1474-1475ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
  
• Griffin R, review of Hitlers Movement in the Verdict of Polish National Democracy, in English Historical Review 115 (2000) pp.1027-1028ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision and Ideology Since 1980, in Journal of World History 11 (2) (2000) pp.401-405ISSN: 1045-6007 eISSN: 1527-8050
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• Griffin R, review of Schools of Hate: Fascist Systems in Europe, in American Historical Review 105 (2000) pp.1380-1381ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
  
• Griffin R, review of Remembering Cable Street., in 34 (2000) pp.75-77
• Griffin R, review of The Collaborator: the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, in European History Quarterly 30 (2000) pp.605-608ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism, in English Historical Review 114 (1999) pp.1023-1024ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, in English Historical Review 113 (1999) pp.791-792ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of Little Fatherlands. Popular Regional and National Festivals in the Fascist Era, in English Historical Review 113 (1999) pp.1030-1031ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of A History of Fascism, 1914-1945., in 70 (1998) pp.448-451
• Griffin R, review of Gender and Fascism in Modern France., in 32 (1998) pp.63-66
• Griffin R, review of The Czech Fascist Movement 1922-1945, in European History Quarterly 27 (1998) pp.573-580ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics, in 32 (1998) pp.63-66
• Griffin R, review of Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, in European History Quarterly 27 (1998) pp.573-580ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Making Sense of Tyranny, in European History Quarterly 27 (1998) pp.573-580ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of From Liberalism to Fascism : the Right in a French Province, 1928-1939, in Patterns of Prejudice 32 (1998) pp.63-66ISSN: 0031-322X
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• Griffin R, review of The Educational Policies of the Fascist Regime in Italy, 1922-1943 - German - Charnitzky,j, in English Historical Review 112 (1997) pp.260-261ISSN: 0013-8266
  
• Griffin R, review of Nationalisms: the Nation-state and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century - M Guibernau, in International Affairs 73 (1997) pp.154-156ISSN: 0020-5850 eISSN: 1468-2346
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• Griffin R, review of Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators, in Oxford Art Journal 19 (1997) pp.122-124ISSN: 0142-6540 eISSN: 1741-7287
  
• Griffin R, review of Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe - R Brubaker, in International Affairs 73 (1997) pp.154-156ISSN: 0020-5850 eISSN: 1468-2346
  
• GRIFFIN R, review of The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990 - Hartley,k, in Oxford Art Journal 18 (1996) pp.103-107ISSN: 0142-6540 eISSN: 1741-7287
  
• GRIFFIN R, review of The Birth of Fascist Ideology - From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution - Sternhell,z, Sznajder,m, Asherii,m, in European History Quarterly 25 (1995) pp.477-479ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
  
• Griffin R, review of Kollaboration in Frankreich im Zweiten Weltkrieg : Marcel Déat und das Rassemblement national populaire = Collaboration in France in World War II : Marcel Déat and the National Popular Rally, in European History Quarterly 24 (4) (1994) pp.586-588ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
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Books

• Fascism (editor) anthology of texts in 'The Oxford Readers Series' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0-19-289249-5
• International Fascism: Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus (editor) (Arnold, 1998) ISBN 0-340-70614-7
• Fascism (author and editor; with editorial assistance from Mathew Feldman) in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Political Science series (Routledge, 2003) ISBN 0-415-29015-5
• Roger Griffin (ed.) Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Political Religion (Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions (London: Routledge, 2005) ISBN 9780415375504
• Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, Andreas Umland (principal author and co-editor), Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right. (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2006). ISBN-10: 3898216748
• Fascism in the Polity Press 'Key Concepts in Political Theory’ series (2017) 978-1509520688 (March 2018)
• Czech translation of Modernism and Fascism Prague: Carolinum Press, (2016)
• Arabic translation of Terrorist’s Creed Cairo: El-Arab (2017).

In preparation

• Italian translation of Modernism and Fascism to be published by Rome: Aracne (2018)

Latest book projects

• Double Trouble: How Alter Egos Alter History (Palgrave 2019) (a study of the implications of the plural human self for understanding modern political history)

 

Journal articles not in Converis

• 'The Fascist Phoenix', Politics Review, vol. 2, no. 2, (Nov., 1991), pp. 2-5.
• 'Was Nazism Fascist?', Modern History Review, vol. 5, no. 1, (Nov. 1993), pp. 15-17.
• 'Modernity under the New Order: The Fascist Project for managing the Future', (Thamesman Publications, Oxford Brookes School of Business imprint, 1994)
• 'Europe for the Europeans: The fascist vision of the new Europe', Humanities Research Centre Occasional Paper, no. 1, 1994.
• 'Romantic Twilight or Post-modernist Dawn?', Oxford Art Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 103-107.
• 'The Post-fascism of the Alleanza nazionale: A case-study in Ideological Morphology', Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1996, pp. 123-146.
• 'Totalitarian Art and the Nemesis of Modernity', Oxford Art Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, 1996, pp.122-4.
• 'I am no longer human. I am a Titan. A god!' The fascist quest to regenerate time', Electronic Seminars in History, History of Political Thought, at http://www.history.ac.uk/eseminars/sem22.html (first published May 1998)
• 'The Sacred Synthesis: The Ideological Cohesion of Fascist Culture', Modern Italy, vol. 3, no. 1 (1998), pp. 5-23..
• 'Fascism is more than reaction'', Searchlight, vol. 27, no. 4 (Sept. 1999), pp. 24-6.
• 'Between metapolitics and apoliteia: the New Right's strategy for conserving the fascist vision in the 'interregnum', Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 8, no. 2, Feb. 2000, pp. 35-53.
• 'Pasts which shall not pass (or knowing what's right)', Patterns of Prejudice vol. 34,
• 'Monuments and Motorways: de Felice's Ambiguous Legacy to Fascist Studies', (in Italian translation), Ideazione, vol. 6, no. 4, July 2000, pp. 211-4.
• 'Racism' or 'rebirth'? The case for granting German citizenship to the alien concept 'generic fascism', Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften, vol. 11, no. 2, July 2000, pp. 300-3
• 'Interregnum or endgame? Radical Right Thought in the 'Post-fascist' Era', The Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2000, pp. 163-78
• 'In the Shadow of the Megamachine: reflections on Golomstock's iron law of totalitarian art', Third Text, no. 51, 2000, pp. 29-38
• 'The Rebel with a Cause: Mussolini as a National Revolutionary 1909-1919', New Perspective, vol. 6, no. 1 (September 2000) pp. 31-5.
• 'Notes towards the definition of fascist culture: the prospects for synergy between Marxist and liberal heuristics', Renaissance and Modern Studies (vol. 42, Autumn 2001), pp. 95-115.
• 'Fatal Attraction: The Appeal of Nazism', New Perspective, vol. 7, no. 2, December 2001, pp. 21-27.'The Reclamation of Fascist Culture', Review article for European History Quarterly vol. 31, no. 4, October 2001, pp. 609-20.
• 'The Primacy of Culture. The Current Growth (or Manufacture) of Consensus within Fascist Studies', Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 37, no. 1 (2002), pp. 21-43.
• 'The Alleanza nazionale and the democratic right', Ideazione, vol. 8, no. 3 (2002), pp. 101-108.
• 'Paper Tiger or Cheshire Cat? A Plain Spotter's Guide to Fascism in the Post-fascist era', Searchlight, (November 2002), pp. 18-21.
• 'The palingenetic political community: rethinking the legitimation of totalitarian regimes in inter-war Europe', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (Winter 2002), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 24-43
• 'Roots (or Rhizomes?) of 'Rootedness' Notes towards an intellectual history of the palingenetic right's revolt against the disembedding processes of Western modernity', Virtual talk for the conference 'Challenges to the New World Order: Antiglobalism and Counterglobalism', Amsterdam University, May 2003.
• 'The Concept that came out of the Cold: The Progressive Historicization of Generic Fascism and its New Relevance to Teaching 20th Century History' History Compass (historiographical Website http://www.history-compass.com: Blackwell: 2003)
• 'Ecological Humanism and the Grounding of Utopia', New Humanist (November 2003)
• 'Hooked crosses and forking paths: The fascist dynamics of the Third Reich', Bulletin fuer Faschismus- und Weltkriegsforschung, no. 23 (July 2004), (Berlin, Organon): for special issue on 'the dynamics of fascism', edited by Werner Roehr
• 'Fascism's new faces (and new facelessness) in the 'post-fascist' epoch, and its threats to contemporary democracy', main article (followed by two rounds of replies to criticisms) for Erwaegen, Ethik, und Wissenschaft Vol 15, Issue 3, (Autumn 2004)
• ‘God's Counterfeiters? Investigating the triad of fascism, totalitarianism, and (political) religion' 'editorial introduction to special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 5, no. 3, (Winter 2004) on 'fascism as a totalitarian movement'
• 'Cloister or Cluster? The Implications of Emilio Gentile's Ecumenical Theory of Political Religion for the Study of Extremism', for special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religion, vol. 6, no. 2, (Summer 2005) edited by Marina Cattaruzza .
• 'Europe for the Europeans: The fascist vision of the new Europe', republished (with updated sources) in reader (edited by Marius Babias) on European enlargement distributed at the Romanian Pavilion of the 51st Venice Biennale 2005.
• 'Ideology and culture' (in special issue of Journal of Political Ideologies devoted to ideology's relationship to other aspects of society). Vol. 11, no. 1 (February 2006)
• '"The Holy Storm': Clerical Fascism through the Lens of Modernism', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 8, no. 2 (2007) (Special Issue on clerical fascism)
• 'Springtime for Hitler', The New Humanist (July 2007)
• Faith in the Age of ISMs, Times Higher Educational Supplement (July 2007)
• Roger Griffin, The Palingenetic Political Community: Rethinking the Legitimation of Totalitarian Regimes in Inter-war Europe, Voprosy filosofii [academic journal Issues of Philosophy), no. 12 (2006), pp. 51-63. http://www.shekhovtsov.org/translations/Roger_Griffin-Palingenetic_Community.pdf
• Faith in the Age of Isms, Times Higher Education Supplement (July 2007)
• 'Zurueck in die Zukunft' Damals (February 2008)
• Italian translation of 'Exploding the Continuum' in Mondoperaio (February 2008)
• 'Fascismo: la lettura marxista di un non marxista', Mondoperaio (Italian Socialist journal) May 2008, issue 3.
• 'Modernitate, modernism si fascism. O re-sintetizare a viziunii', Cuvantul, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 2008).
• 'The Modern Shaft of Babel. Historicizing the “Evil' of Nazism”', published in the Norwegian magazine Impuls (Autumn 2009)
• 'Exploding the continuum of history: a Marxist model of fascism's revolutionary dynamics', (translated into French), in Traian Sandu (ed.), Vers un Profil Convergent des Fascismes: 'Nouveau Consensus' et religion politique en Europe Cahiers de la Nouvelle Europe (October 2010)
• 'Pour une meilleure Entente entre specialiste francophones et anglophones du fascisme, Vingtieme Siecle, Revue d'Histoire, No. 108, October 2010, pp.53-69
• Translation of (108) ‘Studying the European Extreme Right: From New Consensus to New Wave?’ Voprosy filosofii and the online journal Forum (http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html) (2011)
• 'Fascism and the Avantgarde' (in Spanish) Afinidades, Granada 2011
• Translation of 'From Slimemould to Rhizome' for Estonian cultural journal Vikekaar plus brief article on Breivik: Afterthoughts on rhizomic extremism in the light of the Breivik massacre (October 2011)
• 'Studying Fascism in a Postfascist Age: From New Consensus to New Wave?', Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (e-journal), vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)
• ‘Political or ontological insecurity?  The role of modernity in the rise of Hungarian Anti-Semitism in early 20th-century Europe’, for Judith Molnar (ed) Jogfosztás - 90 éve (Budapest: Holokauszt Emlékközpont, 2012)
• ‘Ideological Legitimation in Ideocracies’, Totalitarismus und Demokratie/ Totalitarianism and Democracy, vol. 1 (2012).(German)
• Football in No-Man’s-Land? The prospects for a fruitful ‘inter-camp’ dialogue within fascist studies for special issue of European Journal for Political Theory, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 183-201 (2012) coedited by Roger Griffin and David Roberts
• ‘What fascism is not and is. Thoughts on the re-inflation of a concept’, Fascism vol. 2, no. 2 (2013)
• ‘Researching fascism in Eastern Europe: catching-up or breaking new ground?’ Ukraiina moderna, vol. 20 (2013)
• ‘Fixing Solutions: Fascist Temporalities as Remedies for Liquid Modernity’, European Journal of Modern History, vol. 4 (2014)
• ‘Fascism’ (Russian translation of article for Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (CQ Press, Sage, 2013-4) for the Russian political science journal Polis "Fashizm", in: Politicheskie issledovaniia (Russian Association of Political Science), no. 3, (2014), pp. 141-150  
• Fascism’s Modernist Revolution: A New Paradigm for the Study of Right-wing Dictatorships’, Fascism,vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 105 –129 (2016)
• From Weimar Modernism to Nazi Modernism’, German Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 3 (2017)

 

Imminent

• ‘Fixing Solutions: Fascist Temporalities as Remedies for Liquid Modernity’ (in Spanish) for Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual (Argentinian journal) (2017)
• Spanish translation of ‘Bio-nomic Man (and Woman): Fantasies of Anthropological Revolution’ in Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual, the annual journal of the Centro de Historia Intelectual of the Universidad Nacional of Quilmes, Argentina (2018) (submitted)

Book chapters

• BoA number of short articles on modern political ideologies written for Power: A Political History of the 20th Century (Equinox Publications, Oxford 1990).
• 'Nationalism' in R. Eatwell and A. Wright (eds) Contemporary Political Ideologies (Pinter, London, 1993), pp. 147-68: slightly revised for new edition 1998), pp. 152-79.
• 'Staging the Nation's Rebirth', in G. Berghaus (ed.) Fascism and Theatre (Berghahn, Oxford, 1996), pp. 11-29.
• 'British Fascism: The Ugly Duckling', in Michael Cronin (ed.) The Failure of British Fascism, (Macmillan, London, 1996), pp. 141-165.
• 'Las organizaciones neofascistas', in Manuel Ledesma (ed.), Los Riesgos para la Democracia. Fascismo y neofascismo, (Pablo Iglesias, Madrid, 1997), pp. 101-28.
• 'Italy', in R. Eatwell (ed.) European Political Culture (Routledge, London, 1997), pp. 139-56.
• 'Ce n'est pas Le Pen: The MSI/AN's estrangement from the Front National's immigration policy', in Charles Westin (ed.), Racism, Ideology and Political Organisation (CEIFO, Stockholm, 1998), pp. 197-216.
• 'Home Truths: The Contemporary Struggle between Democracy and Ethnocracy', in Charles Westin (ed.), Racism, Ideology and Political Organisation (CEIFO, Stockholm, 1998), pp. 267-294.
• 'Last Rights?', Afterword to S. Ramet (ed.) The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe, (Penn State Press, Pennsylvania, 1999), pp. 297-321.

• 'To what extent was Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 a direct consequence of the impact of the First World War?', 'How far would you agree with the contention that Italian fascism `failed to transform Italy between 1925-1943?', in Peter Catterall (ed.), Essays in 20th Century World History, (Heinemann, London, 1999), pp. 26-33.
• 'Revolution from the right: fascism', in David Parker (ed.) Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991 (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 185-201.
• 'Plus ca change!: The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite', in Edward Arnold (ed.) The Development of the Radical Right in France 1890-1995 (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 217-52.

• 'Interregnum or endgame? Radical Right Thought in the 'Post-fascist' Era', in Michael Freeden (ed.), Reassessing Political Ideologies (Routledge, London, 2001), pp. 116-131.
• 'No Racism, thanks, we're British. How 'right-wing populism' manifests itself in contemporary Britain', Wolfgang Eisman (ed.) Rechtspopulismus in Europa. Analysen und Handlungsperspektiven (Czernin-Verlag, Graz, 2001), pp. 90-111.
• 'Caught in its own Net: post-war fascism outside Europe', in S. Larsen (ed.) Fascism outside Europe, (Columbia University Press, Columbia, 2000), pp. 46-68.
• Introduction to (Cyprian Blamires ed.) A Historical Encyclopedia of World Fascism (New York, ABC-Clio, 2006)
• 'Afterthought: Redressing the balance in historiography': postscript to Wendy Parkin (ed.), Refashioning the Body Politic (Berg, Oxford, 2002), pp. 217-226.
• 'Cruces gamadas y caminos bifurcados: las dinamicas fascistas del tercer reich' ['Hooked crosses and forking paths: The fascist dynamics of the Third Reich'], in Joan Mellon (ed.) Orden, Jerarquia y Comunidad. Fascismos, Autoritarismos y Neofascismos en la Europa Contemporanea (Tecnos, Madrid, 2002), pp. 103-157.
• 'Interregno o final de partida? El pensamiento de la derecha radical en la era postfascista', (Spanish translation of 'Interregnum or endgame? Radical Right Thought in the 'Post-fascist' Era'), in Luis Vilalta (ed.), La extrema derecha en Europa, (Temas Clave Historia y Vida, Barcelona, 2002), pp. 9-30.
• 'Racism' or 'rebirth'? The case for granting German citizenship to the alien concept 'generic fascism', and 'Nazism's 'Cleansing Hurricane' and the Metamorphosis of Fascist Studies', in W. Wippermann and W. Loh (eds) Faschismus' kontrovers (Lucius und Lucius, Paderborn, 2003), pp. 81-88; 179-190.
• 'The palingenetic core of fascist nationalism', in Alessandro Campi (ed.), Che cose' il fascismo? Interpretazioni e prospettive di ricerche, (Ideazione Editrice, Roma, 2003), pp. 97-122.
• 'This Fortress Built Against Infection' The BUF vision of Britain's theatrical and musical Renaissance', T. Linehan and J. Gottlieb (eds), Cultural Expressions of the Far Right (Macmillan, London, 2003)
• 'Withstanding the rush of time. The prescience of G. L. Mosse's anthropological approach to fascism', in Stanley Payne (ed.), What History Tells: George L. Mosse's Study of Modern Europe, (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 2003).

• Voelkischer Nationalismus als Wegbereiter und Fortsetzer des Faschismus: Ein angelaechsischer Blick auf ein nicht nur deutsches Phaenomen', which appeared in a collection of symposium papers under the title Faschismus - alte und neue Gesichter, edited by Heiko Kauffmann, Helmut Kellershohn, and Paul Jobst (Edition DISS, Unrast-Verlag; Muenster, 2005).
• 'Tunnel visions and mysterious trees: modernist projects of national and racial regeneration 1880-1939', concluding chapter for the volume Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940, edited Marius Turda (December 2006)
• Updated version of 'Plus ca change!: The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite', Miguel Simon (ed) La derecha radical desde 1945 a nuestros dias, conceptos, ideologia y movimientos (TECNOS, Madrid, 2007).
• Introduction to Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All the Fascists Gone (Ashgate, Hampshire, 2007)
• 'Ideology and Culture' in Michael Freeden (ed.), The Meaning of Ideology: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives (Oxford: OUP, 2007).
• Griffin R. From Slime Mould to Rhizome: An Introduction to the Groupuscular Right. In Verkhovsky A.M. (ed.) The Top and the Bottom of Russian Nationalism (Moscow: 'Sova' Centre, 2007), pp. 223 254.http://www.shekhovtsov.org/translations/Roger_Griffin-From_Slime_Mould_to_Rhizome.pdf
• 'Wolfgang Wippermann as Fascistologist: An Anglo-Saxon Perspective on a 'Lone Wolf' in German Fascist Studies , in Dr Stephan Vogt (ed.), History and Presence of National Socialism. A Festschrift for Wolfgang Wippermann (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2010)
• Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-centric Metanarrative (or how fascist studies reinvented the wheel)’, in António Costa-Pinto (ed.) Rethinking the Nature of Fascism (London: Palgrave, 2010).
• ‘Rechtsextremismusforschung in Europa. "From new consensus to new wave?"’, in: Claudia Globisch/ Agnieszka Pufelska und Volker Weiß (Eds.), Die Dynamik der europäischen Rechten. Geschichte, Kontinuitäten und Wandel, (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag; Dec 2010)
• A revised version of 'God's Counterfeiters' in the collection Ideologi og terror edited by Bjørn Arne (Oslo: 2011)
• 'Fascism and Modernity', in A, Mellón, R. Griffin, A. Kallis, I. Saz,  Sultana Wahnon, Los Fascismos del siglo XX. Nuevas aportaciones teóricas (Madrid: Tecnos, 2012)
• "Terroristradikaliseringens metapolitik" [The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization] in Øystein Sørensen, Bernt Hagtvet & Bjørn Arne Steine (ed.) Høyrekstremisme. Ideer og bevegelser i Europa [Right-wing extremism: Ideas and Movements in Europe] (Oslo:Dreyer 2012), pp.101-131 (in Norwegian)
• ‘Homo Humanistus? Towards an inventory of transcultural humanism’ in Joern Ruesen (ed) Exploring Humanity (V&R Unipress, 2012)
• ‘Bio-nomic Man (and Woman): Fantasies of Anthropological Revolution as a Reaction to Modernity’s Nomic Crisis’ for  Marius Turda (ed), Crafting Humans. From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2013)
• ‘Avalanches of Spring: The Great War, Modernism, and the Rise of Austro-fascisms’, in Wolfgang Maderthaner (ed.) Routes into the Abyss? Coping with Crises in the 1930s (Oxford: Berghahn, 2013) in the series "International Studies in Social History"
• 'Lingua Quarti Imperii’. The euphemistic tradition of the extreme right, in Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson (eds) Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right Since 1945 (ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2013
• Mass dictatorship and the 'modernist state', in Jie-Hyun Lim, Michael Schoenhals, and Yong Woo Kim (eds) Mass Dictatorship and Modernity (London: Palgrave, October 2013).
• 'Il ventennio parafascista? The past and future of a neologism in comparative fascist studies', in A.C. Pinto and A. Kallis  (eds.). Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
•  ‘Palingenetischer Ultranationalismus. Die Geburtswehen einer neuen Faschismusdeutung in Hans Woller (ed.), Der Faschismus in Europa: Wege der Forschung (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich July  2014
• Der größte Verführer aller Zeiten? Über die Anziehungskraft des Nazismus, in Gudrun Brockhaus (ed.) Die Attraktion des Nazismus (EssenKlar-Text Verlag, 2014)
• Forward to Costa Pinto, Antonio and Kallis, Aristotle (eds) Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (London:Macmillan Palgrave, 2014)
• 'Fascism' in The Sage Encyclopedia of Fascist Behaviour (2016)
• 'The Modernism of Fascism: Dissolving Old Prejudices' in Modernism and Fascism: Politics and Culture in Interwar Europe 1914-145 ed. Miguel Arco de Blanco 2016)
• 'The future duce as futurist: Marinetti's appendix to Antonio Beltramelli's L'Uomo nuovo (Benito Mussolini)', for Sascha Bru, Luca Somigli & Bart Van Den Bossche (eds.) Futurism: A Microhistory (Maney/Legenda, 2017). 978-1-781884-85-0
• Encyclopedia article: ‘Fascism’ for the Sage Encyclopedia of Political Behaviour edited by Professor Moghaddam (2017)
• Roger Griffin and Constantin Iordachi ‘Fascism’, for William Outhwaite (ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Political Sociology (2018)

Imminent

• ‘Fascism’ (with Constantin Iordachi) in The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, 2v, edited by William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner (2018).
•  ‘A humanistic counter-counter-jihad: how civil society should respond to the Breivik attacks’, chapter for book published in Norwegian based on the 2016 conference ‘Never Again 22 July’ (2018) by the Oslo-based organization REDO  

Areas of expertise

Fascism

Modernism

Terrorism

Transcultural Humanism

 

Membership of professional bodies

He has been a member of the editorial board of Patterns of Prejudice since 1990, and for 4 years was co-editor of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (2005-2008). After leaving the journal he helped create a new Political Religion section of the Blackwell-Wiley on-line journal Religion Compass which he co-edited for three years. He is also consultant editor of the new e-journal  (2011) Fascism: Journal for Comparative Fascist Studies edited by Madelon de Keizer in Amsterdam (Brill). His main editorial work till recently was on the 15 volumes of the series he founded, 'Modernism and' (Palgrave), and he continues to play an active role as founding editor of the journal Fascism, and in the creation of its affiliated association COMFAS (Association for the Comparative Study of Fascism which is to be based in the Central European University (Budapest).

 

Thanks to funding from the Berendel Foundation for 2011-12, Roger Griffin was able to explore the feasibility of setting up an internet resource for the advancement of transcultural humanism, a project (PATH) that builds on his keynote for a conference held by the Berendel Foundation on this topic in Oxford in September 2010. With appropriate funding the outcome of this project would be  the establishment of an electronic journal (Studies in Transcultural Humanism) that would focus on the history of transcultural humanism, both in theory and practice, in the world's religious and secular cultures. This would involve a variety of traditions of tolerance and fruitful coexistence with 'the Other' that exist in human history and could hopefully be reactivated to help address the many dilemmas that humanity now faces on a global and planetary level.

Since September 2015 Roger Griffin has found a highly practical and topical application of his work on terrorism and transculatural humanism in the AVATAR (Analysis of Virtual Alter-egos in Terrorst Activism and Radicalization) project with an expert in the IT aspect of counterradicalization and a police force actively engaged in counter-radicalization and CT work.

He has been Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2003.

He has been on the AHRC panel of peer reviewers since 2008

He has been the external examiner or external consultant on several for MPhil, PhD, and Habilitation theses in the UK, Central European University, France, and Australia.

He was the main author of the project description for a bid to the EU for funding for a 4 year international project on 'Shadows Over Democracy' in Europe in Dec-Jan 2009-2010 (the bid went through to the final round but was unsuccessful).

He gives frequent talks to school sixth-forms on subjects relating to fascism and extremism.

He has given lectures to executives on the need for a new type of leadership in the context of the need for a 'paradigm shift' that will assure sustainability in the future.

He has taken part in a round-table discussion on right-wing populism held at the Pan-European Forum organized by Cheuvreux (May 2012)

He has participated in numerous radio discussions of issues related to his research, and appeared on a Romanian history programme to discuss his work in 2011.

Since 2012 he has given radio interviews for Radio 5 Live, Radio Scotland, Oxford Radio, LBC, Talk Russia, Russia Today, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has been cited in numerous newspaper articles on stories relating to extremist violence.

In May 2015 he was interviewed in a Prague studio by the public on fascism on an hour-long popular TV programme investigating cultural and popular issues.

He is well-established as an expert on terrorism in Norway, where his theories were used in th Breivik trial.

He has given over 40 interviews on aspects of his specialisms to press, TV and radio in more than6 countries in the last 10 years.

Consultancy

Consultancy

• Roger Griffin has carried out an ideological profile of a suspected extreme right-wing ideologue in connection with legal proceedings and delivered lectures on the socio-ideological dynamics of terrorism and fascism to the security forces.
• He invites requests for consultation work of this nature and in areas relating to the design and delivery of courses on topics relating to fascism, terrorism, and modernism at postgraduate, undergraduate and sixth-form/high school level.
• He has acted as a consultant to the Home Office on terrorist radicalization
• He is also available for talks on the psychological dynamics and security implications of modernity, terrorism, and radicalization

Conferences

Conferences

Keynote Addresses and Conference Papers since 2004

• December 2004 paper on political religion at Bern University
• June 2004 paper on neo-populisnm in Britain at symposium held at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva
• November 2005 Keynote speaker on the links between fascism and the German at a symposium on the European New Right (Neue Rechte) held in Wuerzburg, Germany
• April 2006 Keynote speaker for the conference 'Clerical fascism in Inter-war Europe' held at Oxford Brookes University
• 2006 Keynote address for the conference 'Fascism, Modernism and Postmodernism' held at the University of New Mexico in September
• June 2007 Keynote address at the conference on 'Modernity and Mass Dictatorship' to held at Hanyang University, South Korea
• May 2008 Talk on anti-Semitism at Leo Baeck Institute, London
• May 2008 Talk at symposium on Nazism and fascism at German Historical Institute in London
• June 2008 Talk on fascism and modernism at Institute for Documentation of Second World War (Amsterdam)
• July 2008 Two talks given at workshops at ISSEI held in Helsinki
• September 2008) Keynote at international symposium on Modernism and antimodernism in Bucharest
• June 2008 Keynote on fascism and Dutch modernity for the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam
• June 2008 Keynote on research in the Humanities and the Use of the Web at day conference The Virtual Scholar in London
• July 2008 Gave papers at two workshops at ISSEI conference in Helsinki
• Sep 2008 Keynote at conference on Modernity and Antimodernity in Bucharest
• Nov 2008 Keynote on rise of totalitarianism for Symposium held in Vienna to launch book commemorate 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic
• Dec 2008 Guest lecture at Groningen University (Holland) on Dictatorship
• March 2009 Guest lecture at postgraduate seminar on modernism held by Ron Bush (Oxford University)
• March 2009 Guest lecture in Landsberg (Bavaria) on Hitler and Modernity in a series of public talks on Nazism
• April 2009 Keynote at Paris conference (Paris 3) on New Consensus in fascism
• April 2009 Keynote at symposium for Olso on Totalitarianism and Terrorism
• April 2009 Guest lecture on genocide at Oslo University
• May 2009 Guest lecture in Hamburg at Aexl Schildt Institute in series on Third Reich
• July 2009 Keynote at international symposium on language of extreme right at Alfried Krupp Wiisenschaftskolleg in Greifswald
• August 2009 Two workshops on fascism in Europe for Sorbonne Summer School held in Pecs (Hungary)
• Sep 2009 Key note at Oxford Brookes international conference on 'Sacred Modernities'
• Sep 2009 Lecture at Oxford University day-school on Futurism
• Octopber 2009 Podcast keynote for virtual conference 'Breaking Barriers' (organized by Wiley-Blackwell)
• Nov 2009 Talk at symposium on fascism and modernism at University of Konstanz
• Nov 2009 Talk at symposium on parafascism at Lisbon University
• Dec 2009 Talk on Leadership to Executives on Said Training Course
• Jan 2010 Guest lecture for the seminar on comparative and transfer history held by Arnd Baueraemper at the Free University (Berlin, Jan 2010)
• Jan 2010 Festschriftsvortrag for Wolfgang Wippermann
• June 2010 Keynote at symposium at Manchester University on Fascism and Culture 
• Sep 2010 Keynote for conference on transcultural humanism held by Berendel Foundation (Brookes)
• Sep 2010 Keynote at conference on Fascism and Catholicism (Rome)
• Oct 2010 Kenote for conference on 'spaces of extreme violence' Vienna
• Oct 2010 Keynote at conference on 'numerus clausus' held by Holocaust Museum, Budapest
• Nov 2011 Talk for CEU on terrorism (Budapest)
• May 2011 Talk on occasion of award of Honorary Doctorate by Leuwen University
• Sept 2011 Talk on New Man for Berendel Conference (Oxford)
• Sept 2011 Talk on Ideocracy at Hannah Arendt Centre (Dresden)
• Oct 2011 Talk on Modernism and Terrorism in National Library of Romania
• Oct 2011 Short course on Modernism and politics at Bucharest University
• Nov 2011 Talk on peripheral fascisms for conference (Uppsala)
• Feb 2012  Keynote on terrorism (Oslo)
• June 2012 Keynote on fascism (Munich)
• October 2012 Lectures on fascism and modernity (Barcelona)
• February 2013 Talk on the attractiveness of Nazism (Munich)
• March Paper delivered at conference on fascist temporality (Italy) 
• May 2013 2 Talks on totalitarianism/terrorism to Oslo University, MA masterclass, radio interview
• June 2013 Amsterdam Talk at conference on deradicalization held by TerRA
• April 2014 Budapest (Holocaust Memorial Day presentation, presentation on dynamics of terrorism at CEU)
• April 2014 Vienna (ESSH Cworkshop on social basis of fascism)
• May 2014 Talks on terrorism and genocide for Oslo University
• July 2014 Paper on the aesthetics of fascism and parafascism for a workshop in Lisbon held by the Faculty of Social Sciences
• July Berlin (Free University conference on fascism: presentation cancelled because of family illness)
• Sept Moscow (keynote for international conference on impact of 1WW on Russian culture: cancelled because of family illness)
• Sept 2014 (paper for workshop on the sacred in the modern age held at CRASSH in Cambridge)
• Sept 2014 Athens (presentation for ESRC workshp on dynamics of extreme right)
• March Paper at conference on European extreme right(Dubrovnik)
• April Keynote given at Modernism and Fascism conference (Granada)
• May Talk at Genoa University on Fascism
• Keynote at conference on Golden Dawn (Athens)
• May 2015 keynote at conference on Nazi social policies in occupied Europe held by Jan Amos Comenius University
• May keynote at Warwick on volence
• June talk at Exeter on radicalization
• September talks on fascism and terrorism at Bodo University (Norway)
• October Talk at Reading University
• 2016
• September Talk in Santiago de Compostela
• Talk in Granada
• Talk for Strategic arm of Airforce
• Talk at Brighton
• 2017
• Talk in Qatar on the need for a renewal of Humanism
• Talk for Europol

Other experience

Editorships and networks

• Founding editor of the book series Modernism and Consultant editor of the open-access journal Fascism
• On editorial board of Patterns of Prejudice
• Guest Fellow of the Integrated Research in Conflict and Security unit at King’s College
• On committee of the EU-funded TERRA initiative which is exploring best practice in counter- and de-radicalization strategies
• Academic lead in a project to create an International MA on Terrorism and Counter-terrorism taught by a consortium of European Universities (possibly Brookes, LUISS, Rome, and Barcelona).
• Founding member of the Research Network on Radicalism and Violence whose formation has  been approved by the Council for European Studies.

Having obtained a First in French and German literature from Oxford University, he then began teaching in the History of Ideas at Oxford Polytechnic as a member of what was at the time a small, and in the national history context, invisible History department. This change of discipline enabled him to draw on his intensive training in the critical appreciation of how different artists have seen the world over time to achieve an empathetic understanding of the ideas and world-views of the key extremist right-wing movements and regimes which have shaped modern history. Applying this approach to the redefinition of fascism in terms of its ideology led to a DPhil from Oxford University (1990). In it he first expounded the theory of fascism which has made him internationally famous through a steady stream of publications starting with The Nature of Fascism (1991). These have become the cornerstone of the 'New Consensus' definition of fascism widely operated (consciously or not and with some notable exceptions) all over the world by the majority of academics concerned with comparative fascist studies. The twenty three years which have elapsed since have seen over 120 publications on such topics as fascism, racism, modernity, and totalitarianism, and he has given over forty five keynote lectures on these and related topics in universities on three continents. His key works in the last five years are Modernism and Fascism. The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (2007), A Fascist Century. Essays by Roger Griffin (2008), and Terrorist's Creed. Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning (August 2012) (which has appeared in Spanish in 2011 and will appear in a Czech edition in 2014). His next main project is a to write a monograph (Blood Ties) on the way scientized and rationalized variants of the myth of blood have helped shape some of the more catastrophic events of modern history.