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The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism

Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty

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  • Theorizes the relationship between populism and international relations
  • Analyses right- and left-wing populist discourses in the United States, Europe, India and Latin America
  • Discusses how populism affects and is affected by foreign policy and world politics

Part of the book series: Global Political Sociology (GLPOSO)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

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About this book

Populism has lately experienced a meteoric rise to become one of the most widely used terms in academic and wider public discourses and a supposedly defining feature of both domestic and world politics. Situated at the intersection of International Relations (IR), Political Theory and Comparative Politics, this book makes a critical intervention into the burgeoning IR scholarship on populism and problematizes the often hyperbolic and sweeping usage of the term as a general descriptor for non-centrist politics of different persuasions. The book seeks to move into a different theoretical direction and broaden the empirical focus of existing IR research. Theoretically, it bridges the gap between theories of populism and IR by bringing the Laclauian, discursive approach and IR poststructuralism together in a theoretical framework. The proposed framework moves away from the search for the policy preferences and impact of populism, and instead conceptualizes foreign policy and world politics as potential sites for practicing populism, ranging from the articulation of societal grievances to the construction of populist identities such as ‘the people’. Empirically, the book takes IR scholarship beyond the predominant focus on the populist radical right and single-country and -region studies. Building on the discourse analysis of an original data set, it offers a comparative analysis of right-wing and left-wing populist discourses in different world regions as well as populist cross-border collaboration and identity construction.


Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Thorsten Wojczewski

About the author

Thorsten Wojczewski is Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University, UK


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism

  • Book Subtitle: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty

  • Authors: Thorsten Wojczewski

  • Series Title: Global Political Sociology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16848-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16847-5Published: 02 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16850-5Published: 03 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16848-2Published: 01 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5559

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-5567

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Relations Theory, Political Sociology, Foreign Policy

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