Call for Papers: 'Crises as catalysts: The rise of the pan-European New Right'
Conference: 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Section: Crises as catalysts: The rise of the pan-European New Right
Chairs: Hartwig Pautz (University of the West of Scotland) Ian Klinke (University of Oxford)
Location and date: Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017
Deadline for submissions: 10 February 2017
Submit abstracts through conference website
http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2017/section.php?s=120
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The spectacular electoral performance of far-right and extreme right political parties and the rise of right-wing extra-parliamentary movements in most European countries have profoundly unsettled political elites, liberal-minded opinion formers, and academic observers. In the course of the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis and the EU’s integration crisis, the latter expressed most starkly by Britain’s exit from the Union, a blend of racism, nationalism, anti-‘Western’ civilizational thinking, EUrophobia and a radical disillusion with liberal democracy are threatening to destabilise the coordinates of post-1991 democratic capitalism in Europe. These ideological shifts to the right have not emerged overnight but have arguably been fostered for decades by a set of transnationally active organisations and individuals – known as the New Right, or ‘Nouvelle Droite’. By distancing itself from the anti-Semitic ‘Old Right’ and drawing on a rightwing version of pan-Europeanism, the New Right has the potential to offer a third ‘ethnopluralist’ alternative between the usual binary opposition of ‘liberal Europhilia vs. nationalist Europhobia’ that defines the European media landscape.
Submissions will address issues such as:
The strategies and successes of far-right parties
New Right ideas, movements, networks and parties in comparative perspective
New Right intellectuals and think tanks
The renaissance of interwar political thinkers
The intellectual roots of the New Right
New Right political and street movements, such as the ‘Identitarian Movement’
The reasons for the absence of the New Right in some European countries
Popular and intellectual resistance to the New Right
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