International Perspectives

The existing literature has taught us much about the causes and consequences of radical and populist politics, especially about far-right parties and politicians at the domestic level. Yet certain parts of the world are over-represented in this literature (not least the U.S. and Western Europe), and there is scope for assessing the suitability of western-focused concepts and theories for other parts of the globe. Furthermore, the focus on domestic-level and/or comparativist methods of study might reveal a problem of methodological internalism based on the limited recognition of the significance of ‘the international’ in the study of these actors. At the same time, with the growing relevance of radical and populist actors across the world, their perspectives on global affairs and any attempts at cross-border collaboration become ever more relevant fields of investigation. Panel and papers in this section focus on the following themes:  • The foreign policy of radical and populist actors, including their outlooks on processes such as European integration, globalisation, and events such as conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.  • International collaboration between radical and populist actors, in institutions such as the European Parliament or organised conferences such as CPAC. • The way such actors inspire or mimic each other in terms of ideology or strategy and whether or not radical and populist actors amount to or reveal a transnational form of politics. • The ideology / discourses / success or failure / impact of radical and populist actors in understudied parts of the world, possibly questioning the suitability of established conceptual and explanatory framework for such cases.