Political Communication and Performative Leadership Populism in International Politics

Corina Lacatus is Lecturer in Global Governance at Queen Mary University of London. She holds doctorates from London School of Economics and University of California. Her book “The Strength of Our Commitments” is  forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. She published widely on populist communication in the United States, Europe, and Africa. 

Gustav Meibauer is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also completed his doctorate in International Relations. He researches international relations theory, foreign policy decision-making and political communication. 

Georg Löfflmann is Lecturer in US Foreign Policy at Queen Mary University of London. His research examines the intersection of security narratives, national identity and foreign and security policy, with a particular focus on the United States of America. He has edited a special issue of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations on the ‘Study of Populism in IR’, and is the author of American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).