This handbook provides a methodical, comprehensive, and unifying overview of the vibrant yet disparate scholarship on populism and foreign policy. By mapping the debates and existing findings, as well as presenting the different conceptual and theoretical lenses, the handbook provides new insights as to how, whether, and to what extent, populism influences foreign policy. Carefully selected international contributors connect their own work to others to offer a thorough, theoretically informed, and empirically tested academic treatment of the topic across a number of cases where populist actors are, or have been, in power. Divided into four parts (Concepts and Theories; Factors and Processes; Actors and Structures; Issues and Policy Areas), the diverse and comprehensive insights on the global, cross-regional, and transnational dimensions of populism will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, political science, public policy, foreign policy, political theory, populism, and area studies. This text will also be of interest to those working from the perspectives of Sociology, Law, and History, as well as to the practitioners of international politics.
By mapping the debates and existing findings, as well as presenting the different conceptual and theoretical lenses, the handbook provides new insights as to whether and to what extent populism influences foreign policy.
1. Introduction, by David Cadier, Angelos Chryssogelos and Sandra
Destradi
SECTION 1: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
2. The Ideational Approach to Populism and Foreign Policy, by Sandra
Destradi
3. The Politico-Strategic Approach to Populism and Foreign Policy, by David
Cadier
4. The Discourse-Theoretic Approach to Populism and Foreign Policy, by Hakk
Ta
5. The Stylistic-Performative Approach to Populism and Foreign Policy, by
Théo Aiolfi
6. Populism and International Relations Theories, by Angelos Chryssogelos
7. How International Politics Helps Explain Domestic Politics, by Bertjan
Verbeek and Andrej Zaslove
SECTION 2: FACTORS AND PROCESSES
8. Populism and Individual Leadership Profiles in Foreign Policy, by Klaus
Brummer
9. Populism, Roles and Foreign Policy, by Leslie E. Wehner
10. Populist Uses of History and Foreign Policy, by Senem Aydn-Düzgit and
Bahar Rumelili
11. Populism and Political Violence in Foreign Policy, by Semir Dzebo and
Erin K. Jenne
12. Populist Security Narratives and Foreign Policy, by Georg Löfflmann
13. Populism, Coalition Dynamics and Foreign Policy, by Hanna Corsini
14. Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making, by
Vihang Jumle, Johannes Plagemann, Sandra Destradi, Elena Dressler, Alyssa
Santiago and Ronald Schleehauf
15. Populist Communication, Discursive Strategy and Foreign Policy, by Corina
Lacatus and Gustav Meibauer
16. Populism, Party Ideology, and Foreign Policy by Falk Ostermann
SECTION 3: ACTORS AND STRUCTURES
17. Career Diplomats and Populist Leaders, by Kira Huju and Christian
Lequesne
18. Populism and International Organisations, by Kilian Spandler and Fredrik
Söderbaum
19. Populism and EU Foreign Policy, by Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska
20. Foreign Policy Think Tanks under Populist Governments, by Monika Sus and
Joanna Dyduch
21. Populist Foreign Policy and International Law, by Heike Krieger
22. Populism and Regionalism, by Daniel F. Wajner
23. The Transnational Dimensions of Populism, by Panos Panayotu and Giorgos
Katsambekis
24. Diasporas and Populism in Foreign Policy, by Erdi Ozturk
25. Military Thinking and Populist Foreign Policy, by Erica Resende
SECTION 4: ISSUES AND POLICY AREAS
26. Populism and the Use of Force, by Fabrizio Coticchia
27. Populism and International Trade, by Amy Skonieczny
28. Populists, Multinational Corporations, and International Financial
Institutions, by Stephan Fouquet
29. Right-Wing Ethnopopulism and Migration Policy, by Diego Caballero-Včlez
and Eugenio Cusumano
30. Populism, Energy Transitions, and International Politics, by Kacper
Szulecki
31. Populism and International Climate Policy, by Jana Kistner
32. Populism and Nuclear Weapons, by Michal Onderco
33. Populist Aesthetics and Security, by Bohdana Kurylo
34. Radical Right Populism and Development Policy, by Christine Hackenesch
35. Populism and Peacemaking, by Dana M. Landau and Lior Lehrs
36. Civilisationism, Populism and Foreign Policy, by Tamas Dudlak
David Cadier is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) in Paris. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and an Associate Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, he held positions at, inter alia, the London School of Economics, SAIS Johns Hopkins University, the University of Groningen, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Angelos Chryssogelos is Reader in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences and Professions of London Metropolitan University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute and in the past he has held positions at LSE, King's College London, Harvard, and the Schuman Centre of the EUI.
Sandra Destradi holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Freiburg and she is a DAAD long-term guest professor at Reichman University. She is a PI of the project 'Populism and Foreign Policy' funded by the German Research Foundation (financial assistance is gratefully acknowledged, grant DE 1918/3-1), and she leads the MSCA doctoral network 'International Dimensions and Effects of Populism' (IDEoPOP), funded by the European Union (Project 101168714).
