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Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland
This article characterizes and analyses variations in Poland’s foreign policy under the Law and Justice (PiS) government with a view to shed light on the distinctive influence of populism. I argue that this influence has mainly to do with the ‘politics of representation’, understood both in the sens...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439531/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00257-2 |
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description | This article characterizes and analyses variations in Poland’s foreign policy under the Law and Justice (PiS) government with a view to shed light on the distinctive influence of populism. I argue that this influence has mainly to do with the ‘politics of representation’, understood both in the sense of meaning production and of theatrical performance. Building on the discursive and stylistic approaches to populism as well as on the post-structuralist literature in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article conceptualizes populism as a set of representational practices in domestic politics that spill over, and affect, foreign policy. By promoting distinct representations of Self and Other in international affairs and by investing foreign policy making as a site to perform a rupture with technocratic elites, populist practices contribute to enable or constrain certain policy choices and mode of diplomatic actions. In Poland, this has translated into a securitization of the EU, a partial de-Europeanization of the national interest and a re-shuffling of partnership prioritizations, as well as in disruptive and ‘undiplomatic’ comments on the part of the PiS foreign policy executive. |
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spelling | pubmed-84395312021-09-15 Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland Cadier, David Comp Eur Polit Article This article characterizes and analyses variations in Poland’s foreign policy under the Law and Justice (PiS) government with a view to shed light on the distinctive influence of populism. I argue that this influence has mainly to do with the ‘politics of representation’, understood both in the sense of meaning production and of theatrical performance. Building on the discursive and stylistic approaches to populism as well as on the post-structuralist literature in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article conceptualizes populism as a set of representational practices in domestic politics that spill over, and affect, foreign policy. By promoting distinct representations of Self and Other in international affairs and by investing foreign policy making as a site to perform a rupture with technocratic elites, populist practices contribute to enable or constrain certain policy choices and mode of diplomatic actions. In Poland, this has translated into a securitization of the EU, a partial de-Europeanization of the national interest and a re-shuffling of partnership prioritizations, as well as in disruptive and ‘undiplomatic’ comments on the part of the PiS foreign policy executive. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021-09-14 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8439531/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00257-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Cadier, David Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title | Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title_full | Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title_fullStr | Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title_short | Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland |
title_sort | populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from poland |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439531/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00257-2 |
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