Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

Greene, Toby

doi:10.1080/13629395.2020.1739928

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“…Whilst the nation remains core to the radical right vision of international order, recent scholarship also highlights that transnational categories of culture or civilisation recur alongside the concept of nation, including the notion that these are threatened both by the homogenising forces of European integration and Muslim immigration (Brubaker, 2017; Greene, 2021; Lorimer, 2020; McMahon, 2021). This reflects a wider global trend whereby civilisational identities are asserted in opposition to ‘hegemonic liberal narratives’ (Bettiza & Petito, 2018).…”

Section: Radical Right Ideology Regarding International Politicsmentioning

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Natural allies? Varieties of attitudes towards the United States and Russia within the French and German radical right

Greene

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper contributes to a growing literature on the international political world views and foreign policy agendas of European radical right parties with data from in‐depth interviews with current and former elected representatives of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and Rassemblement National (RN), focusing on their attitudes towards the United States and Russia. Despite very different party structures, the interviews point to a common pattern of intra‐party variation. Those who display deeper attachment to ‘elite’ and ‘people’ categories shaping interpretations of political events, revealed by attachment to conspiracy theories, showed inclination to more radical foreign policy agendas. This includes a stronger inclination to move away from traditional US‐led Western or NATO allies and security frameworks and a stronger preference for cooperation with Russia. For those less deeply committed to notions of malign elite conspiracy, anti‐American thinking was less prominent. For them, a sense of shared values and therefore cultural kinship with Western democracies retains relevance, and attitudes towards Russia are notably more cautious. This highlights the diversity of worldviews within the radical right, including with respect to the boundaries of transnational kinship.

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Section: Radical Right Ideology Regarding International Politicsmentioning

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Natural allies? Varieties of attitudes towards the United States and Russia within the French and German radical right

Greene

2023

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Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order

Bettiza

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2023

International Studies Review

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Discourses and practices reproducing a world where a plurality of distinct civilizations clash or dialogue, rise or fall, color multiple facets of global politics today. How should we interpret this unexpected surge in civilizational politics, especially notable in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, China, and Russia? This paper argues that the growing turn to civilizations or, better, civilizationism should be understood as a counter-hegemonic ideological reaction to the globalization of the liberal international order. It theorizes the deepening and widening of the liberal international order in the aftermath of the Cold War as enabled by powerful constitutive ideological forces, which congeal into a distinctively modern, informal, universal standard of civilization. This liberal civilizational standard can be experienced by a particular category of non (fully) liberal actors within and beyond the West as ideologically entrapping them—through processes of socialization or stigmatization—in a state of symbolic disempowerment. The paper shows how civilizationism provides an ideological path for resisting and contesting the liberal standard of civilization by articulating a distinct and valued (essentialized) sense of collective belonging, and an alternative (generally illiberal) normative system and (broadly multipolar) vision of international order. Along with theorizing and exploring in original ways the drivers of civilizational politics in the current historical juncture, the paper makes two further contributions. It highlights and unpacks the key role of ideological dynamics in the making and contestation of international orders in general and the liberal one in particular. It suggests and shows why civilizations are best approached as ideological constructs rather than cultures, identities, or discourses.

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From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel

Shroufi

2024

Political Studies

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Recent shifts in West Europe have resulted in increasingly pro-Israel far-right parties. While this phenomenon remains under-theorised, existing research suggests the far right’s position is not uniform, and support for Israel is limited to contemporary radical right parties. By contrast, traditional extreme-right parties remain hostile towards Israel. To substantiate these claims, the article focuses on Germany and compares the Israel/Palestine discourse of the radical right Alternative für Deutschland and the extreme right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands. The article shows how the parties adopt diametrically opposed positions, with the AfD vehemently supporting Israel while the NPD frames Israel as a pariah state. Yet, the article also highlights a similarity in the parties’ discourse, with both framing a racialised ‘other’ as ‘our’ enemy. As such, the article’s findings suggest the radical/extreme divide needs to be treated with caution. Despite adopting contrasting positions towards Israel, German far-right parties continue to have much in common.

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Judeo-Christian civilizationism: Challenging common European foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

Natural allies? Varieties of attitudes towards the United States and Russia within the French and German radical right

Natural allies? Varieties of attitudes towards the United States and Russia within the French and German radical right

Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order

From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel

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