Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism

For several decades, researchers have sought to understand and explain populist phenomena. This has produced a rich body of work, primarily drawn from in-depth studies of populism’s domestic drivers. The expansion of populism on a global scale since the mid-2010s has prompted the emergence of studies focused on its international dimensions. In tandem with the attention paid to populists’ foreign policy, there has been an extraordinary growth in research on how populists challenge key tenets of the liberal international order (LIO), including in the pages of International Affairs. Notwithstanding the expanding body of work, there is still much to learn about the systemic characteristics of populism, particularly about its transnational impact(s) on world politics, polities and policies, as this special section proposes.¹