Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia (USA) and a Professor II at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (Norway). Born in the Netherlands, where he got his M.A. and Ph.D. at Leiden University, his research addresses the question: how can liberal democracies defend themselves against political challenges without undermining their core values? His recent publications include The Far Right in America (Routledge, 2018), The Populist Radical Right: A Reader (Routledge, 2017), SYRIZA: The Failure of the Populist Promise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser) Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), and On Extremism and Democracy in Europe (Routledge, 2016). He is currently finishing The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019), is a columnist for the GuardianUS and Hope not Hate, and tweets at @casmudde.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What freedom of speech? Of foxes, chickens, and #JeSuisCharlieMost Europeans, at both elite and mass level, have a grossly inflated idea of the extent of freedom of speech in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?After Syriza’s landslide: five predictions of a much similar futureIn the end though, this will all probably lead mainly to more fragmentation, which will make fundamental change even...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)It is comforting and politically expedient to claim that “we” are attacked because “they” cannot deal with “our”...
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Published in: oDRRussia's Trojan HorseIs the European far right really acting as Russia's Trojan Horse in the European Union?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EAF is dead! Long live the MENL!The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Liberal democracy: the do’s and don’ts of banning political extremismThe most prominent case is the extreme right political party Golden Dawn in Greece. While all cases are different,...