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What the new right wants

The new right seeks more than electoral success. It wants to reorder borders, family, economy, foreign policy and the state around a culturally defined nation and a more obedient administrative machinery. The policy agenda of the new right looks varied across countries, but its organising logic ...

3. Anatomy of the new right: ideas and infrastructure

How the new right turns crisis into diagnosis, grievance into coalition, culture into policy, and ideology into durable power through institutions, personnel and media. The new right is often described in terms of anger and nostalgia. That misses its calculated architecture. It rests on four interlocking ...

2. The global context: looming wars, extraction race, and fragmentation

Why this political moment is shaped by overlapping security risks, a hardening scramble for strategic resources, and a world order breaking into competing blocs, corridors and bargaining tables. Read the first article The next decade opens under the shadow of several plausible wars. Analysts track active ...

1. Politics after the “liberal moment”

How the post-1989 order exhausted its legitimacy, why crisis became the dominant political weather, and why that breakdown created room for new ideological projects, including the new right. The “liberal moment” never described a single treaty or summit. It captured the belief, widespread after 1989, that ...

Power, People, and Practical Pan-Africanism

A response to Ken Opalo’s call for stronger African international organisations Ken Opalo, an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (pictured) wrote one of the sharpest analyses I’ve seen on why African international organisations remain so weak. His framing is ...