TOWARDS A COMMON VISION? POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES’ POSITIONS ON THE EU COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY TOWARDS RUSSIA

Sergei Shein () and Egor Ryzhkin ()
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Sergei Shein: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Egor Ryzhkin: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: The growth of populism in the EU member states, as a large-scale internal challenge to the European integration project, has a projection on foreign policy of both national states and the European Union. The EU foreign policy, towards Russia, is the area where the deviation of populist programs and strategies from the positions of the mainstream is most clearly manifested. In this regard, it is necessary to determine the foreign policy orientations of the populist radical right parties of the EU member states regarding the EU foreign policy, towards Russia, and opportunities for their synchronization. The main conclusion of this research is that populist foreign policy orientations highlight the internal heterogeneity of the populist phenomenon. Populism in power and in opposition does not have the capacity to change the EU's foreign policy towards Russia. The nature of populism as an ideology, the instrumental use by right populists of the “theme of Russia” for “internal consumption”, and their mainstreaming in power are a significant barrier to the real challenge of the EU policy towards Russia

Keywords: Populism; populist radical-right parties (PRRP); Alternative fur Deutschland; United Kingdom Independence Party; Fidesz - Hungarian Civil Union; CFSP; EU-Russia relations; comparative case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2022
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Published in WP BRP Series: Political Science / PS, September 2022, pages 1-15

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