2025 Sussex International Theory Prize Honourable Mention Nomination Statement
World of the Right. Radical Conservatism and Global Order provides a timely and important intervention in understanding the global rise of far-right political parties and movements, one of the most daunting political dynamics of the twenty-first century. Providing the first analysis of their rise and global interconnectedness, its authors Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu not only trace the intellectual roots of the global radical Right, but they also demonstrate that their global cooperation is not accidental. Rather, their cooperation has to be conceived of as the conscious attempt to launch a counter-hegemonic struggle against globalisation and the liberal world order. Having been inspired by the work of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, the authors show in World of the Right that despite ideological and thematic differences, a radical Right has emerged that crosses national boundaries to an extent that it seems to have irrevocable effects on present and future world politics.
Sussex International Theory Prize is annually awarded by Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) at the University of Sussex for the best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations. This year’s winner is Patrick Quinton-Brown’s Intervention before Interventionism. A Global Genealogy. Congrats, Patrick!