Populism and World Politics

Frank A. Stengel is Research Fellow at the Research Group on International Political Sociology, Kiel University, Germany.
David B. MacDonald is Professor of Political Science and Research Leadership Chair, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dirk Nabers is Professor of International Political Sociology at Kiel University, Germany.

This volume is the first to analyze populism's international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the mass media for populism's global rise. They zoom in on populism's effect on both different countries' foreign policies and core international concerns, including the future of the liberal world order and the chances for international conflict and cooperation more generally.

First book-length treatment of populism from an International Relations (IR) perspective

1. Introduction: Analyzing the Nexus Between Populism and International Relations.- 2. Populism Beyond the Nation.- 3. How to Become a Leader: Identifying Global Scripts for Populist Leadership.- 4. Populism and contemporary global media: populist communication logics and the co-construction of transnational identities.- 5. Sedimented Practices and American Identity in Donald J. Trump's Election Campaign.- 6. The Populist Radical Right Goes Canadian: An Analysis of Kellie Leitch's Failed 2016-2017 Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Campaign.- 7. Populists and Foreign Policy: Evidence from Latin America.- 8. Making (Latin) America Great Again:  Lessons from Populist Foreign Policies in the Americas.- 9. Between Populism and Pluralism: Winston Peters and the International Relations of New Zealand First.- 10. Conceptualizing the Links between Populism, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: How Modi Constructed a Nationalist, Anti-establishment Electoral Coalition in India.- 11. The Liberal International Order and its Populist Adversaries in Russia, UK and USA.- 12. The global rise of populism as a socio-material phenomenon: a material-discursive entanglements in the construction of genetically modified organisms in the European Union.- 13. Populism and Trade: The 2016 US Presidential Election and the Death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.- 14. Conclusion: Populism, Foreign Policy and World Politics.