Reconciling National and Supranational Identities: Civilizationism in European Far-Right Discourse

How do European far-right parties reconcile their long-standing nationalism with allegiance to “civilization”? Although they are certainly not contradictory, simultaneously adopting national and supranational identities requires considerable discursive maneuvering articulate clearly. In this article, I argue that the Far Right negotiates boundaries between its through two mechanisms, abstraction embedding, which present civilizationism as nonthreatening partially constituted by nationalism. Specifically, links civilization general features of a shared heritage, whereas embedding connects elements nationalist repertoire. demonstrate Right’s monopolization civilizational discourse use these twin mechanisms quantitative qualitative analyses more than 1,000 party manifestos 650,000 tweets. These findings contribute growing scholarly literature treats civilizations “imagined communities” has implications for study nationalism, civilizationism, Right.