Show Notes
On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context.
What is the paleoconservative worldview, how is it different from the neoconservative one, and which is more influential in the Trump regime?
How does paleoconservatism translate into actual foreign policy? What's in Trump's new National Security Strategy?
Are we back to a 19th century-style 'spheres of influence' arrangement?
Does the radical right's foreign policy lead back to a populist kind of isolationism – or to a 'civilisational nationalism'?
Will Trump solidify the transatlantic alliance, or generate a rift?
Links:
/461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams
World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
International Relations and the Geopolitics of the European New Right, European Journal of International Relations, JF Drolet
From Critique to Reaction: The New Right, Critical Theory and International Relations, Journal of International Political Theory, JF Drolet & Michael C. Williams
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: Goodbye, Liberal International Order; Hello, Radical Right, Lee Jones, American Affairs (forthcoming
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