Nicolas Lebourg (born 1974) is a French historian who specializes on

far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

movements in Europe.

Biography

Born in 1974, Lebourg studied sociology at Aix-Marseille University and history at the

University of Perpignan The University of Perpignan (french: Université de Perpignan; ca, Universitat de Perpinyà Via Domitia) is a French university, located in Perpignan. History The first university of Perpignan was established in 1349 by King Peter IV of Ara ...

, from which he graduated with a PhD in contemporary history in 2005, after a thesis on French national revolutionaries during the period 1940–2002. Between 2015 and 2017, he was a research fellow in the program "History of fascism in Europe and Eurasia" at

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

, under the supervision of French historian Marlène Laruelle. In 2017–2018, he was a project researcher in the study group "The Far Right in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence" for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Lebourg also comments on the current political events in various newspapers such as ''Slate'', '' Mediapart'' and '' Libération''.

Works

* ''Le Monde vu de la plus extrême droite. Du fascisme au nationalisme-révolutionnaire'', Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2010. * ''François Duprat, L’homme qui inventa le Front national'' (with Joseph Beauregard), Denoël, 2012. * ''Dans l’Ombre des Le Pen. Une histoire des n°2 du Front National'' (with Joseph Beauregard), Nouveau Monde, 2012. * ''Mort aux bolchos Un siècle d’affiches anticommunistes'', Les Échappés, 2012. * ''Perpignan, une ville avant le Front national'' (with

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and Sylvain Manternach), Fondation Jean Jaurès, 2014. * ''Aux Racines du FN. L’Histoire du mouvement Ordre Nouveau'' (preface by

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, with Jonathan Preda and Joseph Beauregard), Fondation Jean Jaurès, 2014. * ''Rivesaltes, Le Camp de la France de 1939 à nos jours'' (preface by Philippe Joutard, with Abderahmen Moumen), Trabucaire, 2015. * ''Mutations et diffusions de l’altérophobie. De « l’inégalité des races » aux concurrences identitaires'' (with Stéphane François), Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2016. * ''Lettre aux Français qui croient que 5 ans d'extrême droite remettraient la France debout'', Les Échappés, 2016. * ''La Nouvelle Guerre d’Algérie n’aura pas lieu'' (with

), Fondation Jean Jaurès, 2017. * ''Les Droites extrêmes en Europe'' (with

), Paris, Le Seuil, 2015 (English translation : Far-Right Politics in Europe, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2017). * ''La Violence des marges politiques des années 1980 à nos jours'' (with Isabelle Sommier), Reveneuve, 2018. * ''Les nazis ont-ils survécu ? Enquête sur les internationales fascistes et les croisés de la race blanche'', Le Seuil, 2019.

References

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