/532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet

On Trump & radical right ideology.

Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context.

• What is the paleoconservative worldview, how is it different from the neoconservative one, and which is more influential in the Trump regime?

• How does paleoconservatism translate into actual foreign policy? What's in Trump's new National Security Strategy?

• Are we back to a 19th century-style 'spheres of influence' arrangement?

• Does the radical right's foreign policy lead back to a populist kind of isolationism – or to a 'civilisational nationalism'?

• Will Trump solidify the transatlantic alliance, or generate a rift?

Links:

• /461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams

• World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

• International Relations and the Geopolitics of the European New Right, European Journal of International Relations, JF Drolet

• From Critique to Reaction: The New Right, Critical Theory and International Relations, Journal of International Political Theory, JF Drolet & Michael C. Williams

• Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: Goodbye, Liberal International Order; Hello, Radical Right, Lee Jones, American Affairs (forthcoming