Lydia Khalil: Rise of the Extreme Right – The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy

Episode Description

A discussion with Lydia Khalil (Lowy Institute) and Toda’s Kevin Clements and Olivia Stokes Dreier. They discuss the salient features of right-wing extremism and the structural factors which have led to a huge increase in right-wing extremism since 2016: global Inequality, the New World Order, the spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, environmental degradation and climate change, and global democratic decline.

The Author

Lydia Khalil

Lydia Khalil is a Program Director for the Transnational Challenges at the Lowy Institute where she also directs the Digital Threats to Democracy Project. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship at Deakin University where she convenes the Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network.

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