About Us

Tamir Bar-On is a Canadian citizen and he completed his Ph.D. in political science from McGill University in 2000. He was a Professor-Researcher at the Tec de Monterrey (Campus Querétaro) from 2009-2022 and a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers. Bar-On also taught at the Royal Military College of Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor, and Yale University.

Bar-On is a specialist on the radical right, extremism, and terrorism, as well as the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and seven academic books, including: Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (Ashgate, 2007; Routledge, 2016, second edition), Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013), The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen Through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right: Scapegoating, Conspiracy Theories and New Narratives (ibidem Verlag, 2021) (with B. Molas), The Right and the Radical Right in the Americas: Ideological Currents from Interwar Canada to Contemporary Chile (with B. Molas) (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

• Ph.D. in Political Science (McGill University)
• M.A. in Political Science (York University)
• B.A. in Political Science (York University)

• Geopolitics
• Non-Traditional Security

The right and radical right; fascism and neo-fascism; extremism; terrorism and counter-terrorism; jihadism; the history of political ideologies; and soccer (football) and international relations.

Academic Books:

1. Tamir Bar-On, Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (Ashgate, 2007; Routledge, 2016, second edition).
2. Tamir Bar-On, Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013).
3. Tamir Bar-On, The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).
4. Tamir Bar-On, Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen Through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).
5. Tamir Bar-On and B. Molas, Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right: Scapegoating, Conspiracy Theories and New Narratives (ibidem Verlag, 2021).
6. Tamir Bar-On and B. Molas. The Right and the Radical Right in the Americas: Ideological Currents from Interwar Canada to Contemporary Chile (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).
7. Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On, Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).




Peer-Reviewed (SCOPUS) articles:

1. Tamir Bar-On and Miguel Paradela-López, “Limitations and inconsistencies of using the four waves of modern terrorism to understand Latin America,” Critical Studies on Terrorism (2023), pp. 1-23.
2. Tamir Bar-On and Miguel Paradela-López, “Anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism of the radical right: a proposed categorisation,” Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals 132 (December 2022), pp. 93-121.
3. Tamir Bar-On, “The Alt-Right’s Continuation of the ‘Cultural War’ in Euro-American Societies,” Thesis Eleven 163 (1) (2021), pp. 43-70.
4. Tamir Bar-On, “The Uses and Abuses of ‘Fascism’ in the Social Sciences,” in Anthony Messina (ed.) Il Pensiero Storico 9 (11) (2021), pp. 259-295.
5. Tamir Bar-On, “FIFA seen from a postcolonial perspective” (with Luis Escobedo), Soccer and Society 20 (1) (2019), pp. 39-60.
6. “Reflections on soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception,” Soccer and Society 19 (4) (2018), pp. 534-559.
7.  “Fútbol para Todos (Soccer for All): Democratization, Populist legitimization or Quasi- authoritarianism?” (with Andres De Gaetano), International Journal of the History of Sport, 2018, pp. 1-27.
8. Tamir Bar-On, “Three Soccer Discourses,” Soccer and Society (18) (2-3), 2017, pp. 188-203.
9. Tamir Bar-On, “A Response to Alain de Benoist,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 8, no. 2 (2014), pp. 123-168.
10. Tamir Bar-On, “The French New Right: Neither Right, Nor Left?,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 8, no. 1 (2014), pp. 1-44.
11. Tamir Bar-On, “The French New Right’s Quest for Alternative Modernity,” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 1 (1) (2012), pp. 18-52.
12. Tamir Bar-On, “Transnationalism and the French Nouvelle Droite,” Patterns of Prejudice 45 (3) (2011), pp. 199-223.
13. Tamir Bar-On, “Understanding Political Conversion and Mimetic Rivalry,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 10 (3) (December 2009), pp. 241-264.
14. Tamir Bar-On, “Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 16 (3) (December 2008), pp. 327-345.
15. “Fighting Violence: A Critique of the War On Terrorism” (with Howard Goldstein), International Politics (42) (June 2005), pp. 225-245.
16. Tamir Bar-On, “A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new faces and new facelessness in the post-fascist epoch,’” Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik (Deliberation, Knowledge, Ethics) 15 (3) (April 2004), pp. 307-309.
17. Tamir Bar-On, “The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999,” The European Legacy 6 (3) (2001), pp. 333-351.
18. Tamir Bar-On, “The Ambiguities of Football, Culture, and Social Transformation in Latin America,” Sociological Research Online 2 (4) (1997), pp. 1-17.




Articles in Academic Books:

1. Tamir Bar-On, “The Identititarian Movement and its Contemporary Manifestations,” in Dr. Elisa Orofino and Dr. William Allchorn (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates (Routledge, 2023), pp. 302-321.
2. Tamir Bar-On, “The Metapolitics of the Alt-Right: A ‘Cultural War’ for the United States, European identity, and the ‘White Race’,” in Tamir Bar-On and Bàrbara Molas (eds.), The Right and Radical Right in the Americas (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), pp. 185-213.
3. Tamir Bar-On, “The Oldest Hatred, Conspiracy Theories and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in Tamir Bar-On and Bàrbara Molas (eds.), Radical Right-Wing Responses to COVID-19 by the Radical Right (ibidem-Verlag, 2021), pp. 111-118.
4. Tamir Bar-On, “The Global Rise of Nativism and Illiberalism: A Conversation on the Contemporary Political Pathology; Seven theses about the radical right,” in Eviane Leidig (ed.), Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right (ibidem-Verlag, 2020), pp. 17-20.
5. Tamir Bar-On, “Are the Alt Right and French New Right kindred movements?,” in Samir Gandesha (ed.), Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives (Pluto Press, 2020), pp. 79-94.
6. Tamir Bar-On, “Brazil’s Bolsonaro Is The Latest Incarnation Of The Radical Right In Latin America,” in William Allchorn (ed.), Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally (ibidem-Verlag, 2019), pp. 247-250.
7. Tamir Bar-On, “The radical right and its faith in ethnic nationalism,” in William Allchorn (ed.), Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally (ibidem-Verlag, 2019), pp. 27-31.
8. Tamir Bar-On, “Richard B. Spencer and the Alt Right” in Mark Sedgwick (ed.). Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 224-241.
9. Tamir Bar-On, “‘You just don’t understand!’: A feminist reading of the beautiful game.” In W. Soto (ed.). Discriminaciones Socioculturales Globales: entre el fútbol y la política (Heredia, Costa Rica: CLACSO/IDESPO, Universidad Nacional, 2019), pp. 29-55.
10. Tamir Bar-On, “Three soccer discourses,” in David Kilpatrick (ed.), The State of the Field: Ideologies, Identities and Initiatives (1st Edition) (Routledge, 2019).
11. Tamir Bar-On, “The Radical Right and Nationalism,” in Jens Rydgren (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 17-41.
12. Tamir Bar-On, “Las múltiples identidades de la Nueva Derecha francesa: Entre región, nación y Europa,” in David J. Sarquís Ramírez (ed.), Agenda internacional siglo XXI: temas y dilemas (Ciudad de México: UNAM-Porrua, 2018).
13. Tamir Bar-On, “Arguing with the Nouvelle Droite: Substantive Debate, Partisan Polemics, or Truth- Seeking?,” in Maik Fielitz and Laura Lotte Laloire (eds.), Trouble on the Far-Right: Contemporary Right-Wing Strategies and Practices in Europe (Transcript Verlag, 2016), pp. 117-124.
14. Tamir Bar-On, “From Marxism and nationalism to radical democracy: Abdullah Öcalan’s synthesis for the 21st century,” in Willy Soto Acosta (ed.), Ciencias Sociales y Relaciones Internacionales: nuevas perspectivas desde América Latina (Heredia, Costa Rica: Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional-CLACSO, 2015), pp. 225-256.
15. Tamir Bar-On, “Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: the quest for pan-European empire,” in A. Mammone, E. Godin, and B. Jenkins (eds.), Varieties of Right-Wing Extremism in Europe (Routledge, 2013), pp. 69-84.
16. Tamir Bar-On, “Italian Post-War Neo-Fascism: Three Paths, One Mission?,” in Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson, Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text (Routledge, 2013), pp. 42-55.
17. Tamir Bar-On, “Intellectual Right-Wing Extremism: Alain de Benoist’s Mazeway Resynthesis Since 2000,” in Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau (eds.), The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012), pp. 333-358.
18. Tamir Bar-On, “Quebec Separatist Conflict,” in Nigel Young (ed.), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press, 2010), vol. 3, pp. 602-605.
19. Tamir Bar-On, “European New Right,” “Globalization,” “Gramsci,” and “GRECE” entries in Cyprian Blamires (ed.), World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp. 211-214; 280-281; 286; 290-291.
20. Tamir Bar-On, “A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new face” in Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, and Andreas Umland, (eds.), Fascism Past and Present, West and East. An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2006), pp. 85-92.
21. Tamir Bar-On, “The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999,” in Harvey Simmons and Sergei Plekhanov (eds.), Is fascism history?: selected papers (Centre for International Security Studies, 2001) (ibidem-Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2021).