Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
5th Floor Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
5th Floor Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn
(09) Samaras, G. (2025). Misuse, Mislabelling, and the Broken Path of the ‘Hard-Right’: Challenging Non-scientific Political Discourse. European Political Science, 25 (01). DOI: 10.1017/S1682098325100027
(08) 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
(07) 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
(06) 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
(05) 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
(04) 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
(03) Samaras, G. (2025). Demokratia dismantled. Index on Censorship, 54 (1). DOI: 10.1177/03064220251332621
(02) 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
(01) 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. (2025). Tempe Crash and the Triple Discourse. In: A. Galanopoulos & M. Louka (eds.), Collective Trauma after the Tempe Rail Disaster. Topos Books.
Books
Samaras, G. (Forth). Who Rules the Land of Denial? Book Project under contract with Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Forthcoming.
Samaras, G. (2022). Opening the floodgates of hate: An investigation into Golden Dawn’s online extremism [Doctoral dissertation, King’s College London]. King’s College London. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12732.76161
Working Papers
(07) Samaras, G. Austerity’s Alpha Males: Economic Rupture and Far-Right Mobilisation in Greece. Under consideration in Political Studies. Available upon request.
(06) Tsagkroni, B & Samaras, G. Woke as Warfare: Far-Right Discursive Strategies in the European Parliament. Working Paper w/ Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni. Under consideration in Politics & Gender. Available upon request.
(05) Samaras, G. A Diagnostic Toolkit for Police Organisational Failure: Four Case Studies from Greece. Working Paper. Under Review in Public Money & Management. Available upon request.
(04) Samaras, G. Modular Messaging and Multimodal Influence amidst Democratic Fragility in Greece: Unpacking New Democracy’s Party Funded Media Network. Working Paper. Under Review in Information, Communication & Society. Available upon request.
(03) Samaras, G. Under New Stewardship: Affective–Algorithmic Dynamics of Conspiracy Memes on X during the 2024 US Election. Working Paper. Under Review in Visual Studies. Available upon request.
(02) Samaras, G. Gendered Authoritarianism. Working Paper. Under Consideration in Patterns of Prejudice. Available upon request.
(01) Samaras, G. Visualising Exclusion: A German Narrative of Memory, Youth, and the Far‐Right. Working Paper. Under Review in Language and Communication. Available upon request.
Book Reviews
Samaras, G. (2024). The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right. LSE Review of Books.
Samaras, G. (2023). Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump. LSE 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
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: 10.1080/21567689.2022.2146283
Other Publications and Policy Commentary
Submerged in Darkness: Distortion of Reality and the Absolute Deprivation of Alternatives. ETERON Institute. Link.
Aspiring European Imitators of Trumpism. ETERON Institute. Link.
Greek views on gendered violence and equality: unveiling attitudes and concerns. London School of Economics. Link.
The "curse" of "overtourism" and extreme inequalities. ETERON Institute. Link.
Moral Panic and Greek Politics. ETERON Institute. Link.
International & European Developments Bulletin #20 | Europe at the Polls – Where is the EU Heading? ENA Institute. Link.
Sliding Away from Unity. University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International Relations (OxPol). Link.
Normalisation and Co-existence: extremist tendencies in centre-right factions. ETERON Institute Papers. Link.
Party Movement and Authoritarian Tendencies in Greece. ETERON Institute. Link.
Pamphlet No 8: First Thoughts on the 25th June 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics. Link.
Pamphlet No 7: First Thoughts on the 21st May 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics. Link.
The normalisation of the far-right in Greek politics. ECPR - Illiberalism Paper Series. Link.
The Far-right in Greece and the Parliament. ENA Institute for Alternative Policies Papers. Link.
The Greek Far-Right after Golden Dawn: what’s next? C-REX - University of Oslo. Link.
Outlawing Golden Dawn. European Institute of the Mediterranean Yearbook. Link.