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This edited volume aimed to provide answers to two key questions: what is distinctive about Populist Foreign Policy (PFP), and what are the domestic and international factors that enable and constrain PFP. The answers to these questions are increasingly pressing given the changes in global politics, as demonstrated by the various electoral outcomes of 2022 including the legislative elections in France on June 19 and the Italian parliamentary elections on September 25, which saw important gains among populist parties, and the US legislative elections on November 8, which highlighted the continued strength of Trump’s wing in the Republican Party. These outcomes are not surprising, given that some structural and sociological trends fueling current populism—increased levels of inequality, economic distress, political polarization, the global shift of power away from the West—were accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and are expected to remain and even grow in the coming years (Eatwell & Goodwin, 2019; Ministero de Defensa Espanol, 2019).
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Giurlando, P., Wajner, D.F. (2023). Conclusions: Populist Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective. In: Giurlando, P., Wajner, D.F. (eds) Populist Foreign Policy. Global Foreign Policy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22773-8_11
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