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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN POPULISM
UNDERSTANDING THE RISE OF
POPULISM
Professor Michael Cox is Director of LSE LSE IDEAS Strategic
IDEAS and Professor of International Update Summary by
Relations. He is a renowned international Michael Cox
lecturer who has published extensively on the
United States, transatlantic relations, Asia’s It is now recognised that a spectre is haunting
rise, and the problems facing the EU?—?and the West: the spectre of populism. Thus far this
the impact these changes are having on revolt against the liberal establishment and
international relations. liberal elites has delivered the world Brexit and
Donald Trump in 2016. But the populist mood has
not dissipated or gone away. Across the West
there is a profound questioning going on of the
status quo - and it shows no sign of abating.
The causes of populism are complex and its
consequences as yet unknowable. But in an
uncertain world made more uncertain by runaway
globalisation, the mass movement of peoples
across national boundaries, and a profound
identity crisis, there is little chance of populism
fading away any time soon. The election of
President Macron in France in 2017 may have
steadied the nerves of European elites. Indeed,
it has been read by some as marking a return to
normal. But the electoral success by an insurgent
candidate like Macron might be read in a very
different way; and that far from indicating a
return to political 'normal' his victory in 2017
points to further upheavals in the West's political
landscape.
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