Theorizing Populist Radical-Right Foreign Policy: Ideology and Party Positioning in France and Germany

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Foreign Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1093/fpa/orac006

F. Ostermann, Bernhard Stahl

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The success of anti-establishment parties across Europe has fueled debate on the role of populism for foreign policy and its contemporary contestation. The almost-election of Marine Le Pen to the French presidency in 2017, the successes of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany's 2017 and 2021 federal elections, and the central role these populist radical-right (PRR) parties henceforth play in structuring political debate make their wider foreign policy positions an issue of central concern. Yet, we still lack a thorough understanding how populism and radical-right ideology jointly produce a distinct foreign policy positioning beyond European integration. This article tries to narrow this gap by conceptualizing PRR positioning on trade, climate change, development policies, hegemony, and security and defense issues. The comparative analysis of official documents and voting behavior reveals only subtle differences between the Rassemblement national and the AfD, while demonstrating broad commonalities that have the potential to inform research across other cases and world regions on PRR parties’ foreign policy positioning.

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民粹主义极右翼外交政策理论化:法国和德国的意识形态和政党定位

欧洲各地反建制政党的成功引发了关于民粹主义在外交政策中的作用及其当代争论的辩论。2017年，马琳·勒庞(Marine Le Pen)差点当选法国总统，德国新选择党(AfD)在2017年和2021年的德国联邦选举中取得成功，这些民粹主义极右翼(PRR)政党今后在政治辩论中发挥的核心作用，使它们更广泛的外交政策立场成为人们关注的核心问题。然而，我们仍然缺乏对民粹主义和极右翼意识形态如何共同产生欧洲一体化之外的独特外交政策定位的透彻理解。本文试图通过概念化PRR在贸易、气候变化、发展政策、霸权以及安全和国防问题上的定位来缩小这一差距。对官方文件和投票行为的比较分析显示，国民大会党和德国新选择党之间只有微妙的差异，同时显示了广泛的共同点，这些共同点有可能为研究其他案例和世界地区的PRR政党的外交政策定位提供信息。

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