Dear list members,
I would like to direct your attention to a CfP for the 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations - Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017. Apologies for cross-posting.
Thank you,
Hartwig Pautz, University of the West of Scotland.
Crises as Catalysts: The Rise of the Pan-European New Right
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. This ideological shift to the right has not emerged overnight but has 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 new 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
http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2017/section.php?s=120
Panel organisers:
Ian Klinke, University of Oxford, [log in to unmask]; Hartwig Pautz, University of the West of Scotland, [log in to unmask]
The deadline for paper proposals is on the 10th of February 2017.
This is the conference website where paper proposals can be uploaded directly: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2017/
Please do not hesitate to contact the panel organisers should you have any questions.
We look forward to your paper proposals!
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