Nicola Guerra
Adjunct Professor (Docent), PhD
nicola.guerra@utu.fi |
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 intelligenceRed-Brownism: from its post-Soviet foundations to present-day political faultlines (2026)
- Critical Studies on TerrorismEuropean Politics and Society
Dystopia as ideological technology: far-right readings of The Turner Diaries and Le Camp des SaintsWhen the far right meets Zionism: Italy’s post-fascist journey to modern politics (2026)- Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political AggressionEuropean Politics and Society
- From neo-Eurasianism to Trumpism: Aleksandr Dugin and the making of conservative internationalismFrom French nationalism to transnational far-right: the OAS, American intelligence, and the fight for a Western supremacy (2026)
- Studies in East European ThoughtEuropean Politics and Society
- From the Sword of Islam to the Shield of the West: The Italian Far Right’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ReorientationLooking in the mirror: rethinking Western terrorism from a critical perspective (2026)
- Middle East CritiqueCritical Studies on Terrorism
- L’Europa fantasma: pseudo-sovranisti e pseudo-europeisti nell’occidentalismo collettivo . (2026) ORDO AB CHAO: IL GRANDE INGANNO DELL’UNIONE EUROPEA. Nicola Guerra
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- Red meets brown: investigating the antiliberal political convergence of Italy's extremesForeign fighters from the far right and extreme left in the Russia–Ukraine conflict (2025)
- Modern Italy
- The dark green agenda: tracing ecofascist ideologies and identities in ItalyThe radical Westernization of the European far right and the role of the Organisation Armée Secrète during the Algerian War (2025)
- IdentitiesDynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
- The Far Right and Israeli Intelligence, a Collaborative Relationship in Italy in the 1970s (2025)
- Journal of Intelligence History
- 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 (2025)
- Critical Studies on Terrorism
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- Journal of modern italian studies
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- European Politics and Society
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- Ideologies and narratives of Italian foreign fighters in the Russian-Ukrainian war (2024) Nicola Guerra
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- The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023) Guerra, Nicola
- The Russian-Ukrainian war has shattered the European far right : The opposing influences of Steve Bannon and Aleksandr Dugin (2023)
- European Politics and Society



