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US’s terrorist listing of European far-right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home

  • Written by Jason M. Blazakis, Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
imageMembers of the far-right group Nordic Resistance Movement march in Helsinki on Dec. 6, 2017, during centennial festivities of Finnish independence.Markku Ulander/AFP/Getty Images

The rise of the radical far right in Europe poses a threat not only to thecontinent but also to Americans at home and abroad.

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