Nicola Guerra
Adjunct Professor (Docent), PhD
nicola.guerra@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2519-7041 |
Quali- and quantitative methods, oral history, in-depth interviews, applied ethnography, applied linguistics, qualitative thematic analysis, quantitative semantic analysis, sociolinguistics.
Political violence and radicalism; Far right – Far Left; Political Terrorism in Post-War Europe; History of extremist ideologies, Language & Ideology nexus, Hate-speech, Hooliganism, Social Movements.
Profile
A multidisciplinary scholar with research and teaching interest in modern and contemporary history, political science, and sociolinguistics.
Areas of research interest: Political violence and radicalism; Far right – Far Left; Political Terrorism in Post-War Europe; History of extremist ideologies, Language & Ideology nexus, Hate-speech, Hooliganism, Social Movements, Urban Subcultures.
Quali- and quantitative methods, oral history, in-depth interviews, applied ethnography, applied linguistics, qualitative thematic analysis, quantitative semantic analysis, sociolinguistics, Storytelling, Design Thinking.
Before joining academia, I worked 10+ years in Corporate Marketing and have broad Business Administration, Project and Team management experience.
Academic Qualifications
Title of Docent in Modern Italian History and Society, University of Turku, Finland, 2013.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Finland, Italian Language and Culture, 2013.
Master of Science in Economics, University of Pisa, Italy, 1999.
- Aginter Press: a transnational hub for far-right militancy and western intelligence (2026)
- Critical Studies on Terrorism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dystopia as ideological technology: far-right readings of The Turner Diaries and Le Camp des Saints (2026)
- Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - From neo-Eurasianism to Trumpism: Aleksandr Dugin and the making of conservative internationalism (2026)
- Studies in East European Thought
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - From the Sword of Islam to the Shield of the West: The Italian Far Right’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Reorientation (2026)
- Middle East Critique
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - L’Europa fantasma: pseudo-sovranisti e pseudo-europeisti nell’occidentalismo collettivo (2026) ORDO AB CHAO: IL GRANDE INGANNO DELL’UNIONE EUROPEA. Nicola Guerra
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Red-Brownism: from its post-Soviet foundations to present-day political faultlines (2026)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - When the far right meets Zionism: Italy’s post-fascist journey to modern politics (2026)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - From French nationalism to transnational far-right: the OAS, American intelligence, and the fight for a Western supremacy (2025)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Looking in the mirror: rethinking Western terrorism from a critical perspective (2025)
- Critical Studies on Terrorism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Red meets brown: investigating the antiliberal political convergence of Italy's extremes (2025) Guerra, Nicola
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



