Nicola Guerra
Adjunct Professor
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, Storytelling, Design Thinking.
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.
- 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) - Red-Brownism: from its post-Soviet foundations to present-day political faultlines (2025)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Red meets brown: investigating the antiliberal political convergence of Italy's extremes (2025)
- Modern Italy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Far-right European foreign fighters in the Yugoslav and Ukraine wars. Ideological and geopolitical implications between Westernist and Eurasianist radicalisms (2024)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Foreign fighters from the far right and extreme left in the Russia–Ukraine conflict (2024) Nicola Guerra
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ideologies and narratives of Italian foreign fighters in the Russian-Ukrainian war (2024) Nicola Guerra
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The link between right-wing political radicalism and geopolitical action. The Yugoslav wars and the action of the opposing factions of the European extreme right (2024)
- Critical Studies on Terrorism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The radical Westernization of the European far right and the role of the Organisation Armée Secrète during the Algerian War (2024)
- Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023) Guerra, Nicola
(D6 Editorial work for a professional compilation book) - The Russian-Ukrainian war has shattered the European far right : The opposing influences of Steve Bannon and Aleksandr Dugin (2023)
- European Politics and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Russia-Ukraine war has shattered the Italian far right (2023)
- Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Il mito delle Waffen-SS non tramonta a Ovest (2022) Nicola Guerra
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Intervista. 'La Nato non userà la Finlandia per minacciare la Russia' (2022) Nicola Guerra; Erkki Tuomioja; Federico Petroni
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - La profezia di Koivisto: così la Finlandia abbandona la neutralità (2022) Nicola Guerra
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - La rivista Eowyn (1976–1982) e il femminismo personalizzante delle donne neofasciste (2022)
- Analele Universitatii Din Craiova, Seria Stiinte Filologice, Lingvistica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ludwig: a revolt against the modern world. The language and ideology of an Italian Neo-Nazi group in the Years of Lead (2022)
- Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Per farla finita col PCI. La sinistra rivoluzionaria e il Movimento del ‘77 (2022)
- Settentrione: Nuova Serie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Settentrione nr. XXXIV (2022)
- Settentrione: Nuova Serie
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Campioni di lingua: Baggio, Totti, Di Canio e Del Piero (2021)
- Treccani
(Other publication) - Il linguaggio politico della sinistra e della destra extraparlamentari negli anni di piombo (2021)
- Italian Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
