The recovery of authoritarian traditions: processes, actors and networks

In Europe, Latin America and the United States the electoral successes and rising popularity of political parties that take nationalist and nativist positions, attack the rights of minorities, women, LGBTQ+ people and migrants, and contest establishment parties and supranational institutions, begs the question of whether a new authoritarian shift or conservative radicalisation is underway at global level with profound political, social and cultural effects. With the aim of contributing new thinking to this debate, issue 132 of Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals gathers texts that seek to reconsider the authoritarian right-wing in the current context. In particular it looks at the revitalisation of conservative practices, discourses and imaginaries in countries on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the heterogeneity that exists within this ideological universe and the differences between the various local settings, the analyses suggest the presence of both convergences and transfers of ideas, narratives and practices that may be signs of affinities and feelings of belonging that extend beyond national spaces.

Alberto Martín Álvarez and Kristina Pirker Introduction. The revitalising of the authoritarian right: Europe, the United States, Latin AmericaSteven Forti“Prima gli italiani!”. Changes and continuities in the Italian extreme right: the Lega and Fratelli d’ItaliaGuillermo Fernández-Vázquez and David Lerín Ibarra Ethnic Hispanicism and the Iberosphere: Vox’s peculiar view of the Latin American regionBàrbara Molas“Hopefully, Nietzsche’s day will come”: the Alt-Right’s illiberal rootsTamir Bar-On and Miguel Paradela-LópezAnti-imperialism and anti-colonialism of the radical right: a proposed categorisationWaldo AnsaldiProposed research agenda on the Latin American right-wingIrene Lungo RodríguezAuthoritarianism and narratives on subalternity in Guatemala and El Salvador: the communist and the gang memberOmar Núñez Rodríguez and Valentín Palomé Délano(Dis)integrative modernity: voices of the Chilean right after the estallido socialOther articlesJuan Tovar RuizJoe Biden’s foreign policy paradoxBook reviews (subjects)Omar Nava Pineda From left to right: similarities and differences in Latin AmericaCarlos Fernando Lopez de la Torre The new right: trying to identify a fluid phenomenonAlfredo Crespo Heterogeneity versus homogeneity in the new right (radical, extreme, far)Salvador Marti Democratisation and de-democratisation in MexicoCastellar Granados When democracy is the only game in townIvan Gonzalez-Pujol How do we study international reality? Two analytical approaches to quantum international relationsList of reviewers 2022