Transnational Nationalists: Building a Global Radical Right

Political conferences focused on ideas rarely attract a great deal of public attention, but the ‘National Conservatism’ conference that took place in central London in May this year was an exception. Before ‘NatCon’ had even begun, prominent British newspapers and columnists speculated about the significance of numerous sitting Conservative ministers attending a gathering of the global radical Right. Yoram Hazony, chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation and NatCon’s intellectual founder, was clearly delighted with the extensive media coverage. On the conference’s opening morning, Hazony said that ‘something is happening in this room’. In the days and weeks that followed, dozens of articles and opinion pieces debated exactly what that ‘something’ was and what its implications might be. Understandably, much of this discussion centred on the potential impact of National Conservatism on British politics. But this conference was also part of a wider attempt to build a transnational radical Right with ambitions to reorient politics both within and between states...

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