Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
4.51 Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn / Scholar
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
4.51 Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn / Scholar
Publications
Book
- Samaras, G. (2026). The Long Shadow of Golden Dawn: Violence, Memory, and the Afterlife of the Greek Far Right. Book Project
under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Forthcoming.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Samaras, G and Tsagkroni, B. (2026). Governance-by-Signifier and the Far-Right Politics of “Woke” in the European Parliament. Accepted in European Societies.
- Samaras, G. (2026). Decadent Brussels or Fortress Europe? Punitive Europeanism on the Greek Far-right. Mediterranean Politics. DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2026.2713137
- Samaras, G. (2026). Masculinity Under Pressure: Economic Crisis, Nationalism, and Far-Right Support among Former Golden Dawn Voters. Terrorism and Political Violence. 10.1080/09546553.2026.2702618
- Samaras, G. (2026). ICE as Domestic State Terror: Operation Metro Surge and the Production of Fear in Minneapolis. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 19(03). DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2026.2686525
- Samaras, G. (2026). Make Britain Great Again: The Morphology of Restorationist Re-politics. Politics. DOI: 10.1177/02633957261455903
- Samaras, G. (2026). Modular Messaging and Multimodal Influence amidst Democratic Fragility in Greece: Unpacking New Democracy’s Party Funded Media Network. Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2026.2658839
- Samaras, G. (2026). Misuse, Mislabelling, and the Broken Path of the ‘Hard-Right’: Challenging Non-scientific Political Discourse. European Political Science, 25(1). DOI: 10.1017/S1682098325100027
- Samaras, G. (2026). Old Prejudices, New Flags: Greece’s
Far-Right, Palestine, and the Zionist Turn since the Genocide. Journal of Palestine Studies, 54(4). DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2025.2599553
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Samaras, G. (2025). Mnemonic Normalisation in the Visual Politics of the German Far-Right. Language and Communication, 105. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.001
- Samaras, G. (2025). The Digital Ethnonation: Multimodal Extreme-Right Propaganda and National Identity on YouTube.
Mediterranean Politics, 31(2). DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2025.2545670
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Samaras, G. (2025). From Protest to Paradox: A Decade of SYRIZA’s Ascent, Governance and Decline. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1663569
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Samaras, G. (2025). Derailing Truth: Tripartite Discourse and Public Outrage over Greece’s Tempe Valley Disaster. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 33(3). DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.70062
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Samaras, G. (2025). Battleground Europe: The Rise of Anti-Woke Movements and Their Threat to Democratic Values. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1568816
- Samaras, G. (2025). Hide and Seek: Extreme-Right Leadership and Communication Tactics Behind Bars in Greece. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 26(2). DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2025.2487790
- Samaras, G. (2025). Decoding the Symbolic Storm Fuelling Greek Far-Right Politics: a Visual Essay. Visual Studies, 40(2). DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2025.2483230
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Samaras, G. (2025). Weaponising Religion in Greece Post Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Far-Right Political Discourse from 2019 to 2024. Journal of Empirical Theology, 38(1). DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20240018
Book Chapters
- Samaras, G. (2027). Charting extremism: gatekeeping, mediated access, and interviews with former Golden Dawn voters. In L. Hubbard & L. Sugiura (Eds.), Methods in hate research: Volume 1—Methodological approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
- Samaras, G. (2026). Tempe Crash and the Triple Discourse. In: A. Galanopoulos & M. Louka (eds.), On the tracks of trauma. Tempi: Memory, Struggle, Justice. Topos Books.
Book Reviews
- Samaras, G. (2026). How the far right embraced the Cultural Marxism conspiracy. London School of Economics Review of Books.
- Samaras, G. (2026). Far-Right Extremism Online: Beyond the Fringe and The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meaning of Online Far-Right Propaganda. Crime, Media, Culture. DOI: 10.1177/17416590261430194
- Samaras, G. (2024). The
Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right. London School of Economics Review of Books.
- Samaras, G. (2023). Populism
in Power - Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump. London School of Economics Review of Books.
- Samaras, G. (2023). The culture
of democracy–a sociological approach to civil society: edited by Bin Xu, Cambridge, Polity, 2022. Democratization. ISBN
1509543988. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2142209
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Samaras, G. (2023). The Capitol
Riots. Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack. International Journal of
Press-Politics. DOI:
10.1177/19401612231172315
- Samaras, G. (2022). Rise
of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: edited by Lydia Khalil, Melbourne, Penguin, 2022, ISBN 1761046357. Politics, Religion & Ideology. DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2022.214628
Other Publications
- Samaras, G. (2026). Precarity and gender equality among Greek youth. Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Eteron and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
- Samaras, G. (2026). The Efficiency Illusion: How DOGE Reshaped the American State. Political Insight, 17(1). DOI: 10.1177/20419058261436088
- Samaras, G. (2025). Demokratia dismantled. Index on Censorship, 54 (1). DOI: 10.1177/03064220251332621
Biagio, R & Samaras, G. (2025). Inequality and Fiscal Policy in a Spatially Uneven Green Industrial Transition: a New-Keynesian Model with UK Data. ETERON Research Proposal.
- Samaras, G. (2021). Outlawing Golden Dawn: Dealing with Right-Wing Extremism in Greece. European Institute of the Mediterranean Yearbook 2021.
Policy Commentary
- Samaras, G. (2025). Submerged in Darkness: Distortion of Reality and the Absolute Deprivation of Alternatives. ETERON Institute.
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Samaras, G. (2024). Aspiring European Imitators of Trumpism. ETERON Institute.
- Samaras, G. (2024). Greek views on gendered violence and equality: unveiling attitudes and concerns. London School of Economics.
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Samaras, G. (2024). The "curse" of "overtourism" and extreme inequalities. ETERON Institute.
- Samaras, G. (2024). Moral Panic and Greek Politics. ETERON Institute.
- Samaras, G. (2024). International & European Developments Bulletin #20 | Europe at the Polls – Where is the EU Heading? ENA Institute.
- Samaras, G. (2024). Sliding Away from Unity. University of Oxford – Department of Politics and International Relations.
- Samaras, G. (2023). Normalisation and Co-existence: extremist tendencies in centre-right factions. ETERON Institute Papers.
- Samaras, G. (2023). Party Movement and Authoritarian Tendencies in Greece. ETERON Institute.
- Samaras, G. (2023). Pamphlet No 8: First Thoughts on the 25th June 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics.
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Samaras, G. (2023). Pamphlet No 7: First Thoughts on the 21st May 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics.
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Samaras, G. (2023). The normalisation of the far-right in Greek politics. ECPR – Illiberalism Paper Series.
- Samaras, G. (2023). The Far-right in Greece and the Parliament. ENA Institute for Alternative Policies Papers.
- Samaras, G. (2023). The Greek Far-Right after Golden Dawn: what’s next? C-REX – University of Oslo.