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Nicolas LEBOURG

Career History

  • Since 2019: Coordinator of the Citizenship Chair, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
  • 2015–2020: Research fellow, “Project on the Transnational History of the Far Right,” directed by Professor Marlène Laruelle, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University.
  • 2018–2019: Research Engineer, European Center for Sociology and Political Science, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne.
  • 2017–2018: Project researcher for “The Far Right in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence,” Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (New York) – Open Society Institute.
  • From 2000 to 2015, taught at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia (research assistant, assistant professor, lecturer).
  • 2006–2008: Research Fellow for the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial program.

Degrees

  • PhD in Contemporary History, 2005.

Awards, Honors, and Coordination of or Participation in Research Projects

  • Member of the Scientific Council on Radicalization Processes (COSPRAD).
  • Member of the steering committee for the VIORAMIL program (Violence and Militant Radicalization in France) of the French National Research Agency, led by François Audigier (University of Lorraine).
  • Member of the 2011–2015 IDREA (Internationalization of Radical Right-Wing Movements: Europe and the Americas) international program at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lorraine, directed by Professor Olivier Dard, Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l’Europe (IRICE, UMR 8138), Sorbonne University.

Interactions with the environment

  • Regular media appearances.
  • Webmaster of the "Fragments on the Present" website.

The 5 most representative works

  • Nicolas Lebourg, *Did the Nazis Survive?*, Paris, Seuil, 2019 (English translation by Routledge, 2020).
  • Edited by Nicolas Lebourg and Isabelle Sommier,*Violence on the Political Margins: From the 1980s to the Present*, Paris: Riveneuve, 2017.
  • Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, *The Far Right in Europe*, Seuil, Paris, 2015 (translated into English by Harvard University Press, 2017; into Korean by Hamul, 2017; and into Spanish by Capital intelectual, 2020).
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Abderahmen Moumen, Rivesaltes: The Camp of France from 1939 to the Present, with a foreword by Philippe Joutard, Trabucaire, Perpignan, 2015.
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Joseph Beauregard, *François Duprat: The Man Who Invented the National Front*, Denoël, Paris, 2012.

The 5 most representative articles

  • “Violence by Extremist Students in the 1960s,”*Etudes*, May 2018, pp. 45–58.
  • “Spaces and Violence of the Radical Far Right,” edited by Fanny Bugnon and Isabelle Lacroix,*The Territories of Political Violence in France (1962–2012)*, Paris: Riveneuve, 2017, pp. 41–68.
  • “An Analysis of Populism,” edited by Olivier de France and Marc Verzeroli, “The International Order in the Face of Democratic Challenges,” *La Revue internationale et stratégique*, No. 106, 2017, pp. 73–80.
  • “Arriba Eurasia? The Difficult Establishment of Eurasianism in Spain,” ed. Marlène Laruelle,*Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship*, Washington, Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 125–142.
  • “The National Front and the Radical Far-Right Sphere,” in Sylvain Crépon, Alexandre Dézé, and Nonna Mayer (eds.),The False Facades of the National Front: A Sociological Study of a Political Party, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2015, pp. 121–139.