The Far Right and International Organizations

Abstract

The Far Right is increasingly challenging international institutions and organizations. In recent years, a plethora of right-wing governments, populist opposition parties, or transnational coalitions of ultra-conservatives have put pressure on the validity and applicability of global norms and rules in world politics---often with unexpected success. While existing work from comparative politics, social movement studies, and, more recently, international relations has analyzed these new challenges, there is an ongoing debate about the nature of the challenges, the strategies and instruments challengers use to politicize global norms, and their impact on international institutions. This panel sheds light on these questions by focusing on the Far Right and its contestation of international organizations. The Far Right encompasses a variety of actors and organizational types, ranging from governments, political parties, foundations, networks, or social movements that share a nationalist/nativist ideology. We seek to understand the ways in which the Far Right contests global institutions---at different levels of analysis. In addition, a key concern is to systematically understand the effects the Far Right has on international institutions in terms of their design, policy outcomes, and institutional resilience. The panel is open to all fields of political science that study the Far Right and invites contributions from different theoretical perspectives, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and from researchers at different career stages.

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