Populist Foreign Policy and Mobilization in Bolivia

Is research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. He works on the intersection of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Area Studies, often with a comparative angle to it. He currently co-directs two third-party funded research projects. In the project ‘Legitimate Multipolarity’, he and his colleagues explore the legitimacy of international institutions in the context of a multipolar distribution of power globally. In the project ‘Populism and Foreign Policy’, he and his colleagues investigate populism’s consequences for foreign policy and international affairs. He is the author of the monograph Cosmopolitanism in a Multipolar World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has co-edited the book India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020). His work has been published in journals such as International Studies Review, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Review of International Studies, The Pacific Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis, amongst others.

Carlos Heras holds a MA in Political Science from El Colegio de México. As a researcher, he focuses on party politics and International Relations in Latin America. He is a junior researcher at Populism and International Relations project.

Dr. Sandra Destradi holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Previously, she was a Professor of International Relations and Regional Governance at the Helmut Schmidt University and a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research interests include the impact of populism on foreign policy and international politics, issues of regional security, and the role of emerging powers in global governance. Together with Johannes Plagemann, she is the PI of the project ‘Populism and Foreign Policy’ (German Research Foundation, grant DE 1918/3-1), from which this article originated.