New publication studies the new educational projects of Europe’s far-right

In a new journal article, Dorit Geva and ProDem member Felipe G. Santos explore the new educational projects of Europe’s far-right and their vision for the international order. They study the new institutes for higher education established by Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest (Hungary), and former French National Front leader Marion Maréchal in Lyon (France) and Madrid (Spain) and conclude that they are seeking to establish a new globalist illiberal order. They argue that the globalist illiberal agenda extends elements of the globalist project while reclaiming a radicalized view of Christian democracy. Europe’s far-right views the global order as composed of strong nations who need to defend their sovereignty on ‘cultural’ issues while protecting their common Christian roots. They trace their project by focusing on two new institutions of higher education, Hungary’s National University of Public Service Ludovika (Ludovika-UPS) and the Institut de Sciences Sociales, Économiques et Politiques (Institute of Social Sciences, Economics, and Politics—ISSEP), based in France and Spain. Through these institutions, globalist illiberals aim to cultivate new leaders outside the liberal ‘mainstream’ and redefine the meaning of Christian democracy. They conclude that surging nationalism among mid to small powers is not resulting in deglobalization but is fostering illiberal globalization, which has no place for those who do not fit in their exclusionary vision of Christian Europe.

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