My latest with @gnetresearch.bsky.social exploring the rapid growth of UpScrolled and the early signals of far-right accelerationist content taking root on the platform. gnet-research.org/2026/03/25/r...

Rapid Growth, Emerging Risks: Far Right Violent Extremist Content on UpScrolled - GNET

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Amid the recent upsurge in traffic garnered by UpScrolled, @kjallen.bsky.social focuses on the upload of right-wing accelerationist content on the platform, analysing how the extent and severity of the content highlight critical failures in moderating violent extremist discourse.

Rapid Growth, Emerging Risks: Far Right Violent Extremist Content on UpScrolled - GNET

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Drawing on my research about the prospect of ‘chatbot radicalisation’ and the ‘terrorist chatbot’ for @gnetresearch.bsky.social, I did an interview with Jonathan Gibson at The Dispatch (@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social) for his fascinating story on the subject. thedispatch.com/article/ai-r...

When AI Chatbots Become Accomplices

Concern is growing about would-be attackers turning to AI.

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A recent piece I wrote for @vox-pol.bsky.social on an important ideological shift at Arktos—the leading publisher of New Right, Eurasian, and identitarian thought—following the removal of its editor-in-chief. voxpol.eu/the-latest-f...

The Latest Far-Right Rift: Rejecting 'Third Worldism' - VOX - Pol

Constantin von Hoffmeister’s removal from Arktos reveals a far-right shift away from Third Worldism and multipolarity toward Western chauvinism.

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My second article on chatbot radicalisation with @gnetresearch.bsky.social: “A sufficiently unstable individual may find in a model’s sycophancy a form of proof, an artificial Sancho Panza validating whatever fantasy they bring to it”. gnet-research.org/2025/12/08/y...

You Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation - GNET

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Today, @kjallen.bsky.social continues his exploration of the terrorist chatbot with a second Insight, looking specifically at youth, radicalisation, and P/CVE guardrails that need to be in place. Read his first Insight on the subject ➡️ gnet-research.org/2025/12/05/c...

You Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation - GNET

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I published a piece earlier this month with @gnetresearch.bsky.social. This Insight interrogates the evidentiary basis for the so-called “terrorist chatbot”, its likelihood, and the potential implications. Check it out here: gnet-research.org/2025/12/05/c...

Could Chatbots Seduce Us into Extremism? Radicalisation Risks in an Age of AI Companions - GNET

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Today, @kjallen.bsky.social examines the evidentiary basis for the terrorist #chatbot, its likelihood, and potential implications in light of the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's annual report to Parliament.

Could Chatbots Seduce Us into Extremism? Radicalisation Risks in an Age of AI Companions - GNET

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Recently published a piece with @e-international.bsky.social about misdirected efforts to blame video games for the bombing of a school in Jakarta earlier this month. www.e-ir.info/2025/11/25/v...

Video Games, White Supremacy, and the Aftermath of the Jakarta Explosions

Policymakers and authorities should pay attention to the influence that extreme right-wing views and meme subcultures may carry online but they must move beyond long-discredited myths.

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I published a new Insight with @gnetresearch.bsky.social focused on Arma 3, a commercially available military simulation (Milsim) released by Czech video game developer Bohemia Interactive. Have a read here: gnet-research.org/2025/08/26/b...

Building Community, Spreading Hate: Extremism, Hate, and Arma 3 - GNET

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Community-building is an intrinsic and highly positive feature of games like #Arma. Yet, hateful or extremist actors can lead it astray, in conjunction with the capacity to modify or ‘mod’ the game. @kjallen.bsky.social explores the Arma gaming series and these associated challenges.

Building Community, Spreading Hate: Extremism, Hate, and Arma 3 - GNET

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The first forum on our book! Grateful to the reviewers for their engagements on Trumpism, civilizationism, feminism, managerialism, neoliberalism and more journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A world for the right - Nicholas Michelsen, 2025

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My article on Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking is now part of the latest @risjnl.bsky.social issue, alongside a range of really exciting contributions – check out the volume below 👇 #HistIR

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🎉 Vol 51(2) is out!🎉 This issue includes TEN research articles. The articles are all free to read this month, so be sure to take a look and enjoy 👇 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/cSV8VwX

I recently contributed a review essay to a forum in New Perspectives on the newly released book ‘World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order’. Check out the forum here: doi.org/10.1177/2336...

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement - Charlie W. Price, 2025

In recent years, the concept of fantasy has been afforded increased attention in psychoanalytic IR. While this scholarship does address bodies and fantasy, the ...

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"They will call me a terrorist, they will call me an extremist: I am neither. I am but a gardener tending to the great garden of England." An excellent dispatch on a white supremacist terrorist attack in England by Duncan Gardham in @gnetresearch.bsky.social. gnet-research.org/2025/04/15/a...

Attack at the Pear Tree Inn: An Analysis of a British Terrorist’s Manifesto - GNET

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NEW ARTICLE: Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social bit.ly/3D5vUY5

What a week to talk about global infrastructure, right? 😅 New Anti-Dystopians episode out with Dr Andrew Dougall -- talking about everything from DOGE's attempted Treasury takeover to subsea cables. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

From DOGE to Subsea Cables: Global Infrastructures and Corporate Control

A Conversation with Dr Andrew Dougall

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Imagery from military simulation games have become a misinformation scourge. @kjallen.bsky.social has ideas for mitigating the problem bindinghook.com/articles-hoo...

A new piece I wrote for @bindinghook.bsky.social exploring the online trend of misinformation emerging from military simulation games. bindinghook.com/articles-hoo...

NEW ARTICLE! Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (forth.) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.academia.edu/110100929/Jo... via @academia

John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire

This article explores John Stuart Mill’s career-long interest in federal models of politics. Demonstrating how Mill’s multi-faceted account was shaped by his understanding of civilization and of e...

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🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, is now out (open access): "Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...