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Populism and Foreign Policy
Author(s): Sandra Destradi (Author), Johannes Plagemann (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: December 29, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 0197694985
- ISBN-13: 9780197694985
Book Description
The empirical analysis focuses on transitions from non-populist to populist governments in Bolivia, India, the Philippines, and Turkey. It addresses foreign policy change in four fields: the escalation of international disputes, the provision of global public goods, the engagement in multilateral institutions, and the reorientation of each country’s international partnerships. As a part of an abductive research process, the theory of populism and foreign policy initially applied to cases from the Global South is then also used to analyze populist governments’ foreign policies in Hungary, the UK, and Italy.
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About the Author
Johannes Plagemann is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies in Hamburg, Germany, where he is speaker of the Research Team ‘Ideas, Actors, and Global Politics’.
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