Topics in IR: Radical Right Populism and International Affairs

This course addresses one of the major political challenges of our times: the rise of radical-right populism and its impact on international affairs. Over the past generation, more scholarship, political analysis, and journalism has been devoted to radical-right parties than all other parties combined. The course addresses the rise of right-wing parties, its sources of support and domestic political effects. We turn then to the concrete impact on foreign policy of advanced democracies, which varies greatly across both countries and issues.