Uwe Backes (born 2 February 1960 in
Greimerath) is a German
political scientist
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and specialist in
political extremism. He is a professor at the
Technical University Dresden and together with
Eckhard Jesse the editor of the ' and '. Backes is an adherent of the classical German theory of extremism (''Extremismustheorie''
) that postulates that the extreme right and the extreme left have much in common in their opposition to liberty and democracy.
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German political scientists
1960 births
Living people
Academic staff of TU Dresden
Academic staff of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Academic staff of Paris Nanterre University
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Academics and writers on far-right politics
Scholars of terrorism
University of Trier alumni