The empirical analysis will not only shed new light on patterns in the case studies under investigation; implications will be drawn for important theoretical questions which can be generalized to other cases, such as whether populists’ charismatic leadership style translates into distinctive international outcomes; the role of structure, domestic and international, in constraining or enabling populist foreign policy; and how ideas, related to identity, ideology, and emotions, impinge on their behaviour vis-à-vis other countries in the international system. Other important questions we are interested in providing answers to include whether populism is, as most scholars say, a thin ideology, or whether, as a small minority of dissenters sustain, it is a thick one; and whether populism in the realm of foreign policy reflects worsening authoritarian tendencies or rather the interests and wishes of most voters. The latter conclusion would contribute to the literature which discusses whether populism is a democratic “corrective” to international neoliberal trends of the last several decades or, conversely, a more radical, structural shift.weiterlesen