Beyond the Populist Moment

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Perspectives on Democracy's Crisis

Professor Abdelwahab El-Affendi (President, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)

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Bloomsbury Academic
19 February 2026

Comparative politics; Political ideologies; Political structure & processes; Political leaders & leadership; Political structures: democracy

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.

Edited by: Professor Abdelwahab El-Affendi (President Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781350574755
ISBN 10: 1350574759
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction: Passions of the Head Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter I: Agonistic Democracy, Passions and Left Populism: A Hegemonic Approach Chantal Mouffe Chapter II: Populism and the Permanent Crisis of Democracy Azmi Bishara Chapter III: After Politics? Populism and the Political Theology of Marxian Spectres Abdelwahab El-Affendi Chapter IV: Populism and Political Change Paulina Tambakaki Chapter V: Towards a Populist Feminism Luciana Cadahia Chapter VI: Thy Name is my Enemy: Should we Make the Foreign Familiar or The Familiar Foreign? Hamid Dabashi Chapter VII: The Enigma of Left Populism: A View from Contemporary India Uday Chandra Chapter VIII: The Emotional Roots of Populist Mobilizations: Empirically Testing Chantal Mouffe’s Affective Approach to Populism? Abdelkarim Amengay Chapter IX: The Sick Leviathan: Understanding Populism in the Arab world Rachid Boutayeb Chapter X: “I am not a Theorist of Populism”: A Conversation with Chantal Mouffe by Majd Abuamer & Yara Nassar Bibliography

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.

Reviews for Beyond the Populist Moment: Perspectives on Democracy's Crisis

This is an excellent and philosophically rich analysis of the contemporary phenomenon of populism. El-Effendi has expertly brought together leading intellectuals from different regions of the world to debate whether populism can potentially galvanize or will ultimately destroy democracy. This is timely volume as populism appears to grow ever greater global power and influence. * Roland Dannreuther, Professor, University of Westminster, UK *