Tag: Nationalism & Populism

18 Articles

Conflict & Security

Nationalist Underpinnings of Turkey’s Damaging “Kurdish” Policy

Nationalist histories are deliberate and ideological narrations of joys, fears, and hopes that a collective shares. They are deliberate because, as Benedict Anderson put it,…

January 27, 2020

Conflict & Security

The United States and its New Allies in Europe

Over the past several years, the United States has observed its influence in Europe progressively diminish, with Brussels increasingly pursuing policies that are regarded as…

July 15, 2019

Global Governance

The Eclipse of the European Union’s Global Influence

Doomsday scenarios of an implosion of the EU remain premature. Centrist and establishment parties will still control around two-thirds of the European Parliament. Even if…

April 6, 2019

Society & Culture

Nationalism in South Asia and the “Problem of Kashmir”

In the most recent iteration of this conflict, revolving largely around the disputed status of Kashmir, India responded to a deadly terrorist attack on a convoy of its soldiers…

April 4, 2019

Dialogues

Douglas Alexander on the Future of the United Kingdom

GJIA: Upon news of the Brady Amendment passing, Ian Blackford (leader of the SNP in Westminster) accused the government of ripping up the Good Friday Agreement. What do you think…

February 14, 2019

Dialogues

Dalibor Rohac on Populism and Democracy in Europe

GJIA: What do you think are the most common motivating factors shared by right-wing groups forming in Europe? DR: It’s quite difficult to define common motivating factors,…

January 30, 2019

Global Governance

The Strategy of Fear: Populism, Technocracy, and European Democracy

Europe is home to one of the most ambitious political and institutional experiments in history: the European Union. In the EU, populist movements and technocratic elites have…

July 9, 2018

Society & Culture

Things Fall Apart: Populism and Foreign Policy

Trump does indeed have guiding principles, but they are process principles and not the substantive principles that we are used to seeing in a president. What shapes his foreign…

October 20, 2017