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The emerging research program on the far right's international and transnational politics can be consolidated into five key analytical strands to better integrate it within the broader International Relations framework. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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Review and consolidate the growing International Relations literature on far-right inter- and transnational politics within a unified analytical framework.

September 8, 2026European Political Science ReviewOpen Access

The international and transnational politics of the far right: an emergent research program

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TWThorsten WojczewskiCoventry University

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State-of-the-art review uncovers five core research strands in far-right international relations, highlighting pathways to synthesize global far-right scholarship.

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Review and consolidate the growing International Relations literature on far-right inter- and transnational politics within a unified analytical framework.
Conducted a state-of-the-art narrative review of emergent International Relations (IR) scholarship examining far-right politics.
Categorized existing literature across five thematic research strands and mapped their intersections with IR paradigms and subdisciplines.
Applied a level-of-analysis analytical framework to identify methodological limitations, theoretical gaps, and prospective lines of inquiry.
Identifies five primary research strands: foreign and security policy, international thought, global causes, transnational collaboration, and international norms and orders.
Delineates distinct analytical perspectives across strands to facilitate integration between mainstream IR frameworks and far-right studies.
Establishes a multi-level framework to address existing empirical deficits and expand future research on transnational far-right movements.

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Thorsten Wojczewski (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd82f58e84d0ff5b477cd https://doi.org/10.1017/s175577392610068x

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State-of-the-art review uncovers five core research strands in far-right international relations, highlighting pathways to synthesize global far-right scholarship.

The international and transnational politics of the far right: an emergent research program

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