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Routledge handbook of populism and foreign policy: introduction

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Cadier, David, Chryssogelos, Angelos and Destradi, Sandra (2025) Routledge handbook of populism and foreign policy: introduction. In: Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy. Routledge, London, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032540184 (In Press)

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The study of populism and foreign policy is a rapidly growing academic field in the area of foreign policy analysis (FPA), developing in response to the seemingly never-ending rise of populism in political systems around the world. This literature has generated many valuable insights, yet its often reactive nature also means that its theoretical contributions about the changing nature of foreign policy in a world of populism remain largely unsystematized. The purpose of this handbook is to draw on the expertise and work of renowned scholars in all sub-fields of FPA in order to identify patterns, impact and implications of populism as a factor of foreign policy. This is all the more important since, as this handbook as a whole shows, the empirical picture of populism in foreign policy is quite complex and fragmented, with populism causing varying and divergent dynamics in foreign policy across countries, issue areas and the thick ideologies of populists themselves. However, as this handbook claims, it is still important to identify important distinctive and consistent features of foreign policies influenced by populism.

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