When Contestation Is the Norm: The Position of Populist Parties in the European Parliament Towards Conflicts in Europe’s Neighbourhood

Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)

“…Third, most of the scholarship on the foreign policy of governing populists has focussed on Latin America (Sagarzazu and Thies 2019 ; Wehner and Thies 2020 ; Wajner 2021 ), India (Plagemann and Destradi 2019 ; Wojczewski 2019a ), Turkey (Taş 2020 ) and, especially, the US (Drezner 2019 ; Wojczewski 2019b ; Hall 2021 ). Recent work on Europe has shed light on the foreign preferences of European populist parties (Liang 2007 ; Balfour et al 2016 ; Heinisch et al 2018 ; Coticchia and Vignoli 2020 ; Henke and Maher 2021 ) and how they have been projected at the EU level (Van Berlo and Natorski 2019 ; Futák‐Campbell and Schwieter 2020 ; Falkner and Plattner 2020 ) as well as on populist parties’ sovereignism more generally (see Basile and Mazzoleni 2020 ). By contrast, there has been little extensive analysis of the national foreign policies of European populist governments and how they have brought about changes of directions across policy areas (or not).…”