Hans-Georg Betz

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Born1956
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin, MIT
German academic who attended the 2000 Bilderberg possibly as a speaker on The European Far Right - Is there a Threat?

Hans-Georg Betz is an academic at the University of Zurich. He is the author of several books on right-wing populism[1]

In 2000 he attended the Bilderberg Conference, possibly as a speaker on the subject The European Far Right - Is there a Threat?

In 2021 he compared criticism of the official narrative on Covid, ivermectin ("Ivermectin is an excellent drug, at least as long as you happen to be a horse or a cow or some other livestock") and vaccine passports with "the notion that dinosaurs lived peacefully alongside Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" [2]

Career

Betz graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (BA) and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1988 he became an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and later at Loyola University Chicago. He was then Associate Professor of European Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and the Koç Üniversitesi in Istanbul, and of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. In 1998 he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He was most recently Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Center for German and European Studies (CCGES) at York University, Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva and Adjunct Professor at the University of Zurich.

Betz conducted intensive research, widely spread in corporate media, on “radical right-wing populism” in Western Europe. [3][4][5]. He has published books and articles in many anthologies and specialist journals. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yearbook for Islamophobia Research.

He is a member of the American Political Science Association.

Betz lives in Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20001 June 20004 June 2000Belgium
Brussels
Genval
The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests
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References

  1. https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/people/professor-hans-georg-betz/?team_cpt=IMT_PAGE_TEMPLATE
  2. https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2021/12/02/playing-russian-roulette-with-covid-19-cures/
  3. Gordon Smith: Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe. by Hans-Georg Betz. In: International Affairs, 71 (1995) 3, S. 644.
  4. Peter H. Merkl: Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe by Hans-Georg Betz. In: American Political Science Review 90 (1996) 1, S. 210–211.
  5. Fritz Stern: Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe by Hans-Georg Betz. In: Foreign Affairs 73 (1994) 6, S. 1