The international cooperation of the populist radical right
Building Counter-Hegemony in International Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4444063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thorsten Wojczewski (0000-0003-1370-4085, Coventry University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-28 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00471178231222888 |
| OpenAlex | W4390839200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This article analyses the international cooperation of the radical right and the role of populism in forging cross-border ties between different political projects. Drawing on the Laclauian-Mouffian poststructuralist discourse theory, it conceptualises this cross-border collaboration as an attempt to build an international counter-hegemonic project and sheds light on its discursive formation and content. Through the discourse analysis of primary textual data drawn from Europe and the United States, it examines how the discourses of the populist radical right construct collective meanings and identities that enable these actors to cooperate with each other and pursue a common political cause. The article demonstrates that this cross-border collaboration has been made possible and promoted by shared - populist, nationalist and reactionary - political logics of articulation that interpellate and construct subjects as members of an endangered and decaying ethnocultural nation who can only restore their identity through the reversal of political, economic and cultural globalisation and the re-assertation of the 'native people' against 'globalists', 'foreigners', 'immigrants' and 'minorities'. While the transatlantic counter-hegemonic coalition-building has ultimately remained limited, Europe's radical right has successfully broadened its international cooperation and forged a joint counter-hegemonic project that promotes the cultural-racist and supremacist notion of an 'ethnopluralist Europe of nations
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |