When the American activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September 2025, his death was mourned by radical conservatives around the world. This outpouring of grief is but one illustration of the exp...

Dr Rita Abrahamsen joins OSGA in Hilary Term 2026, as Professor of African Studies.

The African Studies Centre is very pleased to announce that Professor Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa) has been appointed to the Professorship of African Studies... (more)

In this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through t...

It is easy to recognize the ideas of philosopher James Burnham, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan, in arguments and actions of the Trump administration.

Potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are wide-ranging. Join us to discuss.

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The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) is also a crisis of the conservative international order, which has come to oppose the LIO after suppor

The global radical right is ascendant. How did it happen, and what can be done to understand and resist this world historical force?

Jean-François Drolet discusses changes in American conservatism, the New Fusionism, and the New Right's civilizationalism and Gramscianism.

The possibility that what’s known as continentalist geopolitics underpins recent U.S. foreign policy initiatives has received too little attention in Canada. Here’s what it means.

World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order By Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-Francis Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita and Alexandra Gheciu. Cambridge: Cambridge Universi...

Abstract. Despite the pervasive description of our times as dystopian, the disciplines of political theory and international relations seldom consider the

Abstract. Despite the pervasive description of our times as dystopian, the disciplines of political theory and international relations seldom consider the

Abstract. Despite the pervasive description of our times as dystopian, the disciplines of political theory and international relations seldom consider the

Business Account

Lawmakers have toppled the government for the first time since 1962. How did we get here?

Journalist Ephrem Yalike was once an instrument of propaganda for the Wagner mercenary group in Bangui. Having secretly fled the Central African Republic a few months ago, he exposes the workings of…

Two studies offer fascinating portraits of the increasingly sophisticated and networked world of autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny.