The Politics of Antagonism

ISBN-13: 9781032254227 / Twarda / 2024 / 248 str.

Georg Lofflmann

Opis

This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind the mobilization of Republican voters and the legitimation of an ‘America First’ policy agenda under the Trump presidency.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Populist Security Imaginary: An Analytical Framework

Chapter 3: Dividing the Nation: The Interplay of Voter Mobilization and Policy Legitimation in the Populist Security Imaginary   

Chapter 4: America First and the Populist Impact on US Foreign Policy and National Security

Chapter 5: Fox and Friends: The Role of Right-Wing Media, Post-Truth Rhetoric, Conspiracy Theories and Social Media in the Populist Security Imaginary

Chapter 6: Hubris and Nemesis: The Populist Security Imaginary between Continuation and Contestation

Chapter 7: Conclusion 

Index

O autorze

Dr Georg Löfflmann is Lecturer in US Foreign Policy at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses (2017) and co-editor, with Cora Lacatus and Gustav Meibauer, of Political Communication and Performative Leadership: Populism in International Politics (2023). His research has been published in Survival, International Politics, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Critical Studies on Security, Geopolitics, Global Studies Quarterly and others.