CSS Speaker Series | A far right international? Transnational populist networks and the working class with Dr. Thomas Greven
Tuesday, November 07, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET | Car Barn 206

Join the Center for Security Studies for a conversation with Dr. Thomas Greven on transnational populist networks and the working class.

Traditional conservative political parties in North America, Europe and beyond are increasingly transformed into right-wing populist parties, or marginalized by such parties. While this development can in part be interpreted as a backlash to the growing pressures of economic globalization – trade and immigration (including the latter’s cultural dimensions) – as well as a nationalist reaction to political globalization (i.e., supranational regulatory efforts), it is noteworthy that right-wing populists are themselves undertaking transnational and international networking efforts. Mostly, this seemingly contradictory behavior is rationalized by the need for pragmatic alliances in the fight against worldwide liberal hegemony (“wokeness” etc.). More worrisome is an ethnonational rationale put forward by right-wing extremists – whose ideas are increasingly mainstreamed in (and by) right-wing populist parties – that these alliances are part of a political organization of whites of European descent in the defense against alleged conspiracies such as the “great replacement.” One facet of both these lines of thought is the claim that only right-wing populists speak for the (white) working class suffering both from globalization and from the cultural modernization promoted by global liberal elites.

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About the Speaker
Dr. phil. habil. Thomas Greven teaches political science at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, as a “Privatdozent.” He is also an independent political consultant and analyst. After studying political science at FU Berlin and Western Michigan University, Thomas Greven graduated in 1994 with an M.A. from WMU. In 1995/1996, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Bernie Sanders (then the independent US representative from Vermont). In 2000, he received his doctorate in political science at FU Berlin with a dissertation on labor rights and US foreign economic policy. Between 2000 and 2007, he was Assistant Professor of political science at the John F. Kennedy Institute at FU Berlin, where he also served as Visiting Professor from 2008 to 2009, and again from 2013 to 2014. In 2009, he earned his post-doctorate degree (“Habilitation”) in political science at FU Berlin. Thomas Greven was visiting scholar and researcher, inter alia, at the University of British-Columbia in Vancouver; the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC; the University of California, Berkeley; York University in Toronto; the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC; the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany; and the North American Studies program at University of Bonn, Germany. His research interests include US politics and foreign policy, right-wing populism and extremism, labor unions and industrial relations, and globalization and development policy.
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