There is a new populist moment in Europe. Populist politicians are enjoying unprecedented
success at the polls and throughout Europe there is a crisis of confidence in how …

Populist parties of the Right and Left are on the rise in Western Europe, but little has been
said about their foreign policy positions. This article outlines the basic elements of the …

The late Eric Hobsbawm 1 termed the twentieth century the “Age of Extremes,” because of
how it was dominated, and scarred, by the extreme right of fascism and the extreme left of …

The 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed, not without some sense of alarm, a rising tide of
right-wing extrem ism. 1 Attacks on immig rants and racist viol ence have occurred with an …

During the past few years a radical populist right has emerged in a number of West
European democracies. Mixing xenophobia with a neoliberal economic program, radical …

In recent years, populist figures, movements and parties have been widely seen as a threat
to the liberal international order. But this prevalent narrative is misleading.—Much analysis …

Despite the populist rhetoric against a» political class «unresponsive to» the people,«the
recent program convention of the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for …

It is forty-five years since Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan published their famous
'freez ing hypo thesis' of West European party systems (Lipset & Rokkan 1967). 1 While the …

Since the late-1980s, populist radical Right parties have established themselves in the party
systems of several Western, Central and Eastern European democracies, in some cases …

Populism is no longer merely a feature of certain parties or other political actors. It is the new
condition of the political in Europe. The result is a brand of politics where the main structural …