Towards great ethno-civilizations and spiritual empires? How the European New Right imagines a post-liberal world order

IF 1 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Manni Crone
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Far-right parties and pundits are often portrayed as parochial nationalists obsessed with the idea of national sovereignty. Opposed to a liberal world order, they prefer a rogue world of nation-states on the loose. This essay seeks to complicate that narrative. It suggests that alongside political parties with a nationalist agenda, an increasing number of voices on the radical Right are now pushing for a re-spiritualized world order in which cultures, civilizations, and empires are to set the scene. This vision of global order echoes Christopher Coker’s recent claim that “we now live in a world in which civilization is fast becoming the currency of international politics.” But, why does this strand of the far-right prefer civilizations to nation-states? To ponder this question, this essay zooms in on the European New Right and more precisely two of its main luminaries, Alain de Benoist and Aleksandr Dugin. It shows how the New Right stretches back to classical geopolitics to imagine a future polycentric world order in which large civilizations are set free from American hegemony. The empires of the future are no longer underpinned by nation-states but by ethnopluralism—a “blossoming variety” of local, ethnic, agrarian polities.
走向伟大的民族文明和精神帝国?欧洲新右翼如何想象一个后自由主义的世界秩序
极右翼政党和权威人士经常被描绘成执迷于国家主权观念的狭隘民族主义者。他们反对自由主义的世界秩序,更喜欢一个由自由国家组成的流氓世界。本文试图使这种叙述复杂化。这表明,除了有民族主义议程的政党,越来越多的激进右翼人士正在推动一种重新精神化的世界秩序,在这种秩序中,文化、文明和帝国将成为主导。这种对全球秩序的看法与克里斯托弗·科克(Christopher Coker)最近的说法相呼应:“我们现在生活在一个文明正迅速成为国际政治货币的世界。”但是,为什么这些极右翼倾向于文明而不是民族国家呢?为了思考这个问题,本文聚焦于欧洲新右翼,更确切地说,是其两位主要的杰出人物,阿兰·德·贝诺伊斯特和亚历山大·杜金。它展示了新右翼如何追溯古典地缘政治,想象未来的多中心世界秩序,在这个秩序中,大型文明将从美国霸权中解放出来。未来的帝国不再以民族国家为基础,而是以民族多元主义为基础——一种地方、民族和农业政治的“繁盛”。
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New Perspectives POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: New Perspectives is an academic journal that seeks to provide interdisciplinary insight into the politics and international relations of Central and Eastern Europe. New Perspectives is published by the Institute of International Relations Prague.
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