Lunchtalk: Dr. Marietta van der Tol (Cambridge): The Global Impact of the Far Right: Politics, Religion and US-Europe Relationship

Dr. Marietta van der Tol

The Hungarian and US elections have thrown into sharp relief that Far Right movements are domestic, as well as transnational and global players. This lecture discusses how these movements are beginning to transform the world: what is their footprint within the formation of new social imaginaries, within religious movements, within the development of constitutionalism, and within the context of the liberal international order? To what extent are these transformations coherent or contradictory? To what extent are interests shared between multiple national contexts? And what does it mean for the relationship between European states, the European Union, and the USA?