Civilizationism in the European Union beyond the far right: a morphological approach
Journal: Journal of European Integration
Year: 2025

Both far-right and liberal EU elites increasingly speak about the need to defend European civilization. However, research on far-right ‘civilizationism’ is more advanced because the term remains theoretically tied to the study of far-right discourses, from where it originally emerged. In this article, we present a framework for studying civilizationism in the EU beyond the far right. First, drawing on the work of Michael Freeden, we conceptualise civilizationism as an ideological element of Euro