Italy and international human rights: facing role contestation

Perini, Pietro de

doi:10.1080/23248823.2021.1946742

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“…As this difference in the access to power may appear problematic from an analytical perspective, it is important to reiterate that the goal of this paper is not to assess the impact of these parties on national foreign policy-making and implementation. The analysis is limited to how role conceptions are expressed in policy discourse, regardless of how they are affected in practice by domestic and international opportunities and pre-existing diplomatic structures (Hawkins et al 2019;Friedrichs 2022;de Perini 2021). From this perspective, what is analytically crucial is that these three parties realistically competed for the leadership of their countries in the period under analysis, causing them to develop and present a full-fledged political agenda, including on the whole range of international affairs.…”

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National role conceptions and populist parties in Europe between heterogeneity and convergence

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2022

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Drawing from the National Role Conceptions (NRCs) framework, this paper seeks to assess whether, beneath the ideological, structural or discursive differences exposed in the literature, a pattern of convergence among the foreign policies of populist parties in Europe can be identified in how these conceive the orientation and tasks that their countries should follow in the international system. Comparing the NRCs which emerge from the foreign policy discourse of three populist parties of diverse persuasions—Front National/Rassemblement National in France, Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy, Podemos in Spain—the paper argues that these parties share the underlying conception of a decisively pro-active, transformative and value-based role for their countries in both European and global perspectives, which the different articulations of the people/other dichotomy in their foreign policy discourse affect and differentiate in terms of goals and preferences..

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Section: Analytical Framework and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%