Beyond the Populist Moment: Perspectives on Democracy’s Crisis

Populism has had a transformative impact on the global political landscape, but is it invigorating and restoring modern democratic politics, or is it destroying it? This landmark study explores this question from cross-continental perspectives, with contributions from leading scholars including Chantal Mouffe, Azmi Bishara and Hamid Dabashi, engaging in this lively, multiregional and multi-disciplinary debate.

Featuring a broad conversation on the rising and fast changing impact of populism on world politics, this volume tackles one of the most pressing and stimulating political and philosophical questions of our time.

Abdelwahab El-Affendi is President and Provost at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI)..Prior to that he was Reader in Politics at the Centre for the Study of? ?Democracy at the University of Westminster (until 2015), Senior Research Associate at St Anthony’s College, of Oxford (1990), Visiting Fellow at CMI (Bergen 1995, and 2003), at Northwestern (2002), and at Cambridge (2010-2012). He delivered keynote speeches at universities in five continents, including 15 major US and UK universities. His publications include: Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities (2015); and After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (2021), co-edited with K. Al Anani.