Tobias Hof is Associate Professor for History and German Studies at the University of Toronto. He was previously the 2022/2023 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, DAAD Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill (2014–18) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (2013–13).  He received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 2009 and his Habilitation in 2018, where he still teaches as a Privatdozent. He is the author of Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus (2022) and has published many articles on the history of terrorism, counterterrorism, fascism, and Ethiopian famines.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionChapter 1. The Birth of Modern Right-Wing Terrorism in the Long Nineteenth CenturyChapter 2. The Age of the World WarsChapter 3. The Cold WarChapter 4. From a Bipolar to a Multipolar World Order: Right-Wing Terrorism Since the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliographyIndex

”…a highly commendable and rigorous scholarly contribution to the study of right-wing terrorism. It offers a comprehensive and well-structured analysis of the evolution of this phenomenon across multiple historical periods, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of its development and manifestations over time.” • Bernhard Blumenau, University of Andrews“With a global scope that ranges from postwar Europe to Latin America, South Asia, and the United States, Hof brings clarity, depth, and nuance to a subject often overshadowed by studies of Islamist or left-wing extremism.” • Florian Hartleb, Modul University Vienna

Tobias Hof is Associate Professor for History and German Studies at the University of Toronto. He was previously the 2022/2023 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, DAAD Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill (2014–18) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (2013–13).  He received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 2009 and his Habilitation in 2018, where he still teaches as a Privatdozent. He is the author of Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus (2022) and has published many articles on the history of terrorism, counterterrorism, fascism, and Ethiopian famines.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionChapter 1. The Birth of Modern Right-Wing Terrorism in the Long Nineteenth CenturyChapter 2. The Age of the World WarsChapter 3. The Cold WarChapter 4. From a Bipolar to a Multipolar World Order: Right-Wing Terrorism Since the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliographyIndex

”…a highly commendable and rigorous scholarly contribution to the study of right-wing terrorism. It offers a comprehensive and well-structured analysis of the evolution of this phenomenon across multiple historical periods, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of its development and manifestations over time.” • Bernhard Blumenau, University of Andrews“With a global scope that ranges from postwar Europe to Latin America, South Asia, and the United States, Hof brings clarity, depth, and nuance to a subject often overshadowed by studies of Islamist or left-wing extremism.” • Florian Hartleb, Modul University Vienna

Tobias Hof is Associate Professor for History and German Studies at the University of Toronto. He was previously the 2022/2023 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, DAAD Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill (2014–18) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (2013–13).  He received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 2009 and his Habilitation in 2018, where he still teaches as a Privatdozent. He is the author of Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus (2022) and has published many articles on the history of terrorism, counterterrorism, fascism, and Ethiopian famines.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionChapter 1. The Birth of Modern Right-Wing Terrorism in the Long Nineteenth CenturyChapter 2. The Age of the World WarsChapter 3. The Cold WarChapter 4. From a Bipolar to a Multipolar World Order: Right-Wing Terrorism Since the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliographyIndex

”…a highly commendable and rigorous scholarly contribution to the study of right-wing terrorism. It offers a comprehensive and well-structured analysis of the evolution of this phenomenon across multiple historical periods, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of its development and manifestations over time.” • Bernhard Blumenau, University of Andrews“With a global scope that ranges from postwar Europe to Latin America, South Asia, and the United States, Hof brings clarity, depth, and nuance to a subject often overshadowed by studies of Islamist or left-wing extremism.” • Florian Hartleb, Modul University Vienna