Party-Political Contestation of the Liberal International Order

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

The liberal international order (LIO) is in a severe crisis. In addition to being challenged by non-liberal rising powers such as China, the LIO's three pillars - free movement of goods and people, rule-based cooperation, and military interventions to protect and promote liberal values abroad - have been politically contested within the societies of the Global North, which have been its main stakeholders. In order to understand the challenge to the LIO from within the Global North, this project examines patterns of party-political contestation of all three pillars of the LIO because political parties are the key intermediaries between citizens' attitudes and government policies. Building on the PI's work on political parties and the changing foreign policy space in Western Europe and North America, the project will analyse patterns of support for and opposition to the LIO in two understudied regions: post-communist Eastern Europe and East Asia. The project will examine parliamentary votes and speeches in Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania, South Korea and Japan in order to answer the empirical questions how political parties have positioned themselves on the three pillars of the LIO and how these positions have developed and changed over time. Furthermore, the project will advance a theory of the foreign policy space by linking parties’ policy positions to political core values and by identifying the main cleavages that structure the party politics of foreign policy.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/01/23 → 31/12/26

Fingerprint

Explore the research topics touched on by this project. These labels are generated based on the underlying awards/grants. Together they form a unique fingerprint.