“Us Versus Them” - The Return of Populist Rhetoric on the Stage of World Politics

  • Alexander Görlach Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-59-2018pp37-41

Abstract

Things that happen in the United States also tend to become virulent after a while in the Old World. The topic of the query for identity that is prevalent in all parts of the Occident is no exception. In the US, the debate about the fabric of the country which is perceived to be steadfast in the Anglo- Saxon tradition revolves around migration from the Hispanic world.

Published online: 31 October 2018

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Author Biography

Alexander Görlach, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Alexander Görlach is a linguist and theologian who works on narratives of identity, politics and religion, and liberal democracy, as well as secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. He is an adviser to the F. D. Roosevelt Foundation's at Harvard University College, where he also served in the “In Defense of Democracy Program” of the foundation at Adams House as affiliate professor. Prior to that he was a visiting scholar to both Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Center for European Studies. He is senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute, and a senior research associate at Cambridge University's Institute on Religion and International Studies, and honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. Prior to his current engagement at Cambridge University Alex served as a fellow to the Center for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). In the academic year 2017-2018 he was invited as visiting scholar to universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Alex is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others. Görlach is also the founder of the debate-magazine The European, and served as its editor-in-chief from 2009 until 2015.
Published
2018-10-31
How to Cite
Görlach, Alexander. 2018. “‘Us Versus Them’ - The Return of Populist Rhetoric on the Stage of World Politics”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 59 (October), 37-41. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-59-2018pp37-41.
Issue
No. 59 (2018): The European Crisis of Politics: Ethnoreligious Pluralism and the Rise of Radical Populism and Far-Right in Europe
Section
Preface

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