Nationalist Internationalists? The Strange Paradoxes of the Global Right

• Analysis
• September 9, 2019

For nearly three years, we have been researching the Radical Right.  It has been quite a journey. We started planning the project before President Trump’s election victory and before the BREXIT referendum. Our hunch was that the growing prominence of populist-nationalist groups and parties in country after country was not a coincidence and that their successes could not be explained with reference only to domestic politics.  We also suspected that while these various groups were fiercely proud of their national identity and distinctiveness, they simultaneously had an international agenda and a vision for a radically transformed world order.