Jean-Yves Camus (born 1958) is a French

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who specializes on nationalist movements in Europe.

Life and career

Born in 1958 to a Catholic and

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family, Camus is an observant Jew and describes himself as part of "the anti-totalitarian left". He earned a M.A.S. in contemporary history at Sciences Po in 1982. He has been a researcher at the ''Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques'' since 2006 and the president of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques ("Observatory of political radicalism") at the center-left think tank Fondation Jean-Jaurès since 2014. In February 2016, Camus was nominated member of the scientific council of the ''Délégation interministérielle à la lutte contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme'' (DILCRA), directed by

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Works

*''Les Droites nationales et radicales en France'', (with René Monzat), Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1992 () * Dir., ''Les Extrémistes, de l'Atlantique à l'Oural'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1996 et 1998 * ''Le Front national, histoire et analyse'', Paris, Éditions Olivier Laurens, 1996 () * ''L’Extrême droite aujourd'hui'', Toulouse, Éditions Milan, « Les essentiels », 1997 () * ''Le Front national'', Toulouse, Éditions Milan, « Les essentiels », 1998 () * Dir., ''Les Extrémismes en Europe'', La Tour d'Aigues, éditions de l'Aube, 1998 () * ''Le Monde juif'', (with Annie-Paule Derczansky), Toulouse, Éditions Milan, « Les essentiels », 2001 () * ''Extrémismes en France : faut-il en avoir peur ?'', Toulouse, Éditions Milan, « Milan actu », 2006 () * ''Les Droites extrêmes en Europe'' (with Nicolas Lebourg), Paris, Le Seuil, 2015 (English translation : Far-Right Politics in Europe, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2017).

References

1958 births Living people French political scientists Academics and writers on far-right extremism Sciences Po alumni People from Châtenay-Malabry Converts to Judaism from Christianity French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French Jews Gaullists {{France-historian-stub