Stevenson Trust for Citizenship and Scottish Council on Global Affairs discussion – 24 April 2025, 18.00-19.30, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8SP

World of the Right: Radical Conservativism and World Order is co-sponsored by the SCGA with the Stevenson Trust for Citizenship at the University of Glasgow.

Speakers: Professor Rita Abrahamsen & Professor Michael C. Williams, Leverhulme Visiting Professors/University of Ottawa.

The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. Radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the ‘New Class’ of global managerial elites.

Professors Abrahamsen and Williams argue that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilizational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are wide-ranging.

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