Populist Foreign Policy 2100-ERASMUS-POFP

The course aims to engage students with the research nexus between populism and foreign policy, while providing advanced knowledge of the ongoing academic debate on populist foreign policy and its implications for international relations. The knowledge acquired during the course will enable students to further develop their research in this emerging field.

During the course, students will develop the ability to analyze foreign policy,
including changes in decision-making processes as well as in foreign policy
institutions and bureaucracy. In addition, they will acquire negotiation skills and learn how to prepare case studies for academic purposes.

Active participation (various forms of in-class engagement)
Projects (case study preparation and presentation)
Participation in a negotiation simulation/game
Final written test – a minimum of 60% correct answers is required to pass.

1. Cadier, D. ‘Populist Politics of Representation and Foreign Policy: Evidence from Poland’. Comparative European Politics 19 (6) (2021), 703-721. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00257-2.
2. Cadier, D. (2023). Foreign policy as the continuation of domestic politics by other means: pathways and patterns of populist politicization. Foreign Policy Analysis, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orad035
3. Cadier, D., Chryssogelos, A., & Destradi, S. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414797
4. Chryssogelos, A. (2021). Is there a populist foreign policy? Chatham House. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/03/there-populist-foreign-policy
5. Corsini, H. and Ongaro, E. (2025). Bureaucratic Responses to Populist Government: Explaining Foreign Policy (Non‐)Change. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies (Early Access). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13748
6. Dodds, G.G.., Joński, K., Rogowski, W.F.., Bozóki, A. & Benedek, I. (2024). Return to Power: The Illiberal Playbook from Hungary, Poland and the United States. Politics in Central Europe, 20(4), 2024. 487-527. https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2024-0022
7. Drezner, D. W. ‘Present at the Destruction: The Trump Administration and the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy’. The Journal of Politics 81 (2) (2019), 723-730. https://doi.org/10.1086/702230.
8. Eiran, E., Ish-Shalom, P. & Kornprobst, M. Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy. J Int Relat Dev 28, 80–104 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-025-00344-x
9. Laclau, E. (2005). On populist reason. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA85918053
10. Lequesne, C. ‘Populist Governments and Career Diplomats in the EU: The Challenge of Political Capture’. Comparative European Politics 19 (2021), 779-795. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00261-6
11. Magcamit, M. I., & Arugay, A. A. (2024). Explaining populist securitization and Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-establishment Philippine foreign policy. International Affairs, 100(5), 1877–1897. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad248
12. MOFFITT, B. (2016). The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation (1st ed.). Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqsdsd8
13. Mudde, C. (2004). The populist Zeitgeist. Government and Opposition, 39(4), 541–563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00135.x
14. Mudde, C. Kaltwasser, C. R. (2017). Populism: A very short introduction. In Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190234874.001.0001
15. Müller, J. ‘What Is Populism? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293784
16. Müller, P., and Gazsi, D. ‘Populist Capture of Foreign Policy Institutions: The Orbán Government and the De‐Europeanization of Hungarian Foreign Policy’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 61 (2) (2022), 397-415. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13377
17. Müller, P., Dyduch, J., & Gazsi, D. (2025). Populism, party-cohesion, and the de-Europeanisation of national foreign policy institutions in Hungary and Poland. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2025.2476032
18. Özdamar, Ö., and Yanik, L. K. ‘Populist Hyperpersonalization and Politicization of Foreign Policy Institutions’. International Affairs 100 (5) (2024), 1835-1856. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae181.
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20. Plagemann, J., & Destradi, S. (2018). Populism and foreign policy: The case of India. Foreign Policy Analysis, 15(2), 283–301. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/ory010
21. Tekines, M. H. (2025). Populists and diplomats: Negotiated agency of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs. Mediterranean Politics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2025.2455315
22. Wajner, D.F., Giurlando, P. ‘Introduction to Populist Foreign Policy (PFP)’. In: Giurlando, P., Wajner, D.F. (eds) Populist Foreign Policy. Global Foreign Policy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22773-8_1
23. Wajner, D. F., Destradi, S., and Zürn, M. ‘The Effects of Global Populism: Assessing the Populist Impact on International Affairs’. International Affairs 100 (5) (2024), 1819-1833. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae217.
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25. Weyland, K. (2021). Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages. Political Studies, 69(2), 185-189. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211002669
26. Wicaksana, I. G. W., & Wardhana, A. (2021). Populism and foreign policy: The Indonesian case. Asian Politics & Policy, 13(3), 408–425. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12594
27. Wicaksana, I. G. W. (2022). Why does populism not make populist foreign policy? Indonesia under Jokowi. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 76(6), 634–652. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2022.2071834
28. Varga, M., and Buzogány, A. ‘The Foreign Policy of Populists in Power: Contesting Liberalism in Poland and Hungary’. Geopolitics 26 (5) (2020), 1442-1463. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1734564.
29. Visnovitz, P., & Jenne, E. K. (2021). Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020. Comparative European Politics, 19(6), 683–702. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00256-3

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