Event

World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order

Date
9 May 2024
Time
12:30 UK time
Speakers
Michael Williams
Rita Abrahamsen
Where
Manor Road Building, Seminar Room G, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Series
IR Research Colloquium
Audience
Members of the University only
Booking
Not required
The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the ‘New Class’ of global managerial elites who are accused of undermining national sovereignty, traditional values, and cultures. World of the Right argues that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilisational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are profound and wide-ranging.