Whitepapers /institute/ en Balancing First Amendment Protections While Navigating “True Threats” Against Local Officials /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/balancing-first-amendment-protections-while 2024-12-10T09:32:37-0800 CTEC Staff 44865 Returning Nuance to Nostalgic Group Studies: Understanding White Supremacy as a Hegemonic Force /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/returning-nuance-nostalgic-group-studies 2024-10-08T09:56:15-0700 Amy Cooter 44599 A Wolf In New Age Clothing: Starseed beliefs, conspirituality, and a soft pathway to radicalization /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/wolf-new-age-clothing-starseed-beliefs Taken at face value, Starseed theology appears to fit within the strange, but generally seen-as-harmless, New Age milieu. But when we look deeper, undergirding Starseed beliefs are direct connections to esotericism and antisemitic conspiracy theories.  2024-06-12T09:16:57-0700 Beth Daviess 41471 The Justification for Designating the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/justification-designating-russian-imperial The white supremacist Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and its leaders Stanislav Vorobyev and Denis Gariev pose an underestimated threat to the United States that may soon call for greater proactive vigilance, such as designating the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). RIM’s growing threat is evidenced by the group’s two-decade survival, incriminating activity on social media, and uncompromising ideological principles. 2024-06-06T15:05:33-0700 Taylor Chin 41466 Lawful Extremism: The Chinese Exclusion Act /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/lawful-extremism-chinese-exclusion-act The first paper in the “Lawful Extremism” series considered whether the 1856 Dred Scott decision that denied Black people citizenship and constitutional rights functioned as an extremist ideological text. This paper uses the same framework to examine the Chinese Exclusion era, covering roughly 1870-1943, and the anti-Chinese movement that traveled from the fringes to the mainstream, becoming the driving force behind the enaction of the Act. 2024-05-20T09:56:57-0700 Beth Daviess and J.M. Berger 41452 John Chrysostom: The Architect of Antisemitism /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/john-chrysostom-architect-antisemitism 2024-04-25T08:53:12-0700 J.M. Berger and Michael S. Broschowitz 41424 ‘Not Flowers, but Flames’: the Women Behind the Hindu Nationalist Movement /institute/ctec-publications-0/not-flowers-flames-women-behind-hindu-nationalist-movement 2024-04-03T14:33:14-0700 Amarnath Amarasingam & Shweta Desai 41371 The Democracy Dilemma: An Examination of Soft Domestic Terrorism in Democratic Systems /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/democracy-dilemma-examination-soft-domestic 2024-02-07T08:13:22-0800 Muskan Agrawal 40319 The Democracy Dilemma: An Examination of Soft Domestic Terrorism in Democratic Systems /institute/ctec-publications-0/democracy-dilemma-examination-soft-domestic-terrorism-democratic-systems 2024-01-31T12:32:55-0800 Muskan Agrawal 40292 The Oath Keepers and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories /institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/oath-keepers-and-covid-19-conspiracy-theories CTEC Digital Research Lead Alex Newhouse and Researcher Sean Kitson recently published a brief investigating the activity of far-right militia group the Oath Keepers in the time of COVID-19. 2020-04-21T12:52:45-0700 mdonnelly@middlebury.edu 25908