‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine
Journal: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Year: 2024

The 2022 Russian (re)invasion of Ukraine highlights the need to understand better how European parties react towards aggressions by anti-liberal authoritarian states. In this article, we focus on the still relatively understudied yet crucial case of the radical left. Since our initial quantitative overview shows that there is no united front on positions of radical left parties towards Russia’s actions, we argue for the necessity of a deeper analysis of radical left strategies. A similar empiric