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Jason M. Blazakis, Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury

US’s terrorist listing of European far-right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home

Members of the far-right group Nordic Resistance Movement march in Helsinki on Dec. 6, 2017, during centennial festivities of Finnish independence. Markku Ulander/AFP/Getty Images

The rise of the radical far right in Europe poses a threat not only to the continent but also to Americans at home and abroad.

But while the U.S. government tends to be quick to use sanctions against perceived bad actors across the globe, when it comes to the transnational threat that far-right violence poses, successive U.S. administrations have been more coy about using another critical and effective tool: terrorist designations.

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