The Radical Right and the 2024 European Elections (hybrid event)
This panel, co-sponsored by John Cabot's Department of Political Science and International Affairs and the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, is a timely discussion of the European elections scheduled across the 27 Member states between the 6th and the 9th of June. With much media speculation surrounding the elections focused on the electoral advance of Radical Right Parties (RRP), the panel brings together three leading experts in the field of European Right-Wing Populism to unpack and explain the forthcoming elections and the potential impact of the Radical Right. The key themes explored will be the RRPs electoral prospects from a comparative perspective; explanations for their potential rise in support (including a discussion of the impact of global events on Populist Radical Right support); what the election result might signify in terms of future RRP transnational group formation in the European Parliament (EP); and, the potential significance of an increased presence of RRPs in the EP for the governance of the EU over the next five-year term.
Speakers:
The 2024 European elections and the Populist Radical Right: Professor Cas Mudde (University of Georgia) (Virtual Contribution)
Cas Mudde is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and is one of the leading global scholars in the field of Right-Wing Populism. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Right Wing Populist Parties in Europe published by Cambridge University Press and co-author of the Oxford University Press Populism: A Very Short Introduction. His conceptualization of Populism as a ‘thin-centered’ ideology remains the best known and most cited framing of contemporary populism from a theoretical perspective. His list of honors, awards and achievements is numerous. In 2022, he was Inducted into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, the country of his birth.
The impact of global events on Populist Radical Right support: Dr Emilia Zankina (Temple University, Rome)
Dr Emilia Zankina is an Associate Professor in Political Science, Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Temple University, and Dean of Temple University’s Rome campus. She is a renowned scholar in populism and political parties, East European politics, and gender political representation. She has published in a range of eminent journals and presses in these fields. She has recently been involved in a highly acclaimed European Centre for Populism Studies (ECPS) project with Gilles Ivaldi examining the impact of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on Right Wing Populism in Europe. She is currently involved in a follow-up project looking at support for Radical Right Parties in the 2024 European elections.
The influence of the radical right in the European Parliament and the 2024 elections: Dr. Nathalie Brack (ULB Brussels & College of Europe, Bruges)
Dr Nathalie Brack is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and at Panthéon Assas University. Her research and publications which focus on Euroscepticism, and EU politics and institutions are internationally renowned. She is the author of the Palgrave published monograph “Opposing Europe in the European Parliament. Rebels and Radicals in the Chamber” and has published in numerous, eminent journals. In 2021 she edited a special issue of the Journal Comparative European Politics on Sovereignty in Europe. She is currently leading a project on post-truth politics and the role of political parties.
The European Elections : A US Perspective: Professor Steven Conn (Miami University)
Professor Steven Conn is the W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His work focuses on American intellectual, urban, and political history. He is the author of 7 books - most recently The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is - and Isn't which was named a "recommended book" for 2023 by the New Yorker magazine. He has lectured widely around the United States and around the world. Conn is also a founding editor of two web-based public history projects "Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective" and "Picturing Black History," a collaboration with Getty Images.
Moderator:
Dr Nicholas Startin (Associate Professor of International Relations, John Cabot University, Rome)
Dr Nicholas Startin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at John Cabot University in Rome and a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brussels based Global Governance Institute. He is the former Chair of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES). His research focuses on the impact of Euroscepticism on domestic and transnational party systems, with a focus on the Radical Right, and on the media's influence on the Eurosceptic debate in the UK. He has published in leading journals and coedited various special issues and volumes in the field.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and International Affairs and the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs.
The panel is a hybrid event. If you would like to join us, please RSVP here to attend in person or virtually.