Research Areas: Legitimacy & Legitimation in International Relations / Conflict Resolution, Populism in/and Foreign Policy, Regional Integration, Transnational Politics in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Main Publications:
Giurlando, Philip, Daniel F. Wajner, and Angelos Chryssogelos, “Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum.” Comparative European Politics (forthcoming 2024).
Wajner, Daniel F., and Leslie Wehner, “Embracing or Rebuffing 'The International'? Populist Foreign Policy and the Fourth Wave of Populism in Latin America”. Global Studies Quarterly 3:2 (2023), 1-12.
Giurlando, Phillip, and Daniel F. Wajner, (eds.), Populist Foreign Policy: Regional Perspectives of Populism in the International Scene (Springer, Global Foreign Policy Studies, 2023).
Wajner, Daniel F., “The Populist Way Out: Why Contemporary Populist Leaders Seek Transnational Legitimation”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24:3 (2022), 416-436.
Wajner, Daniel F. “Legitimando al Populismo: Análisis de las Estrategias de Legitimación Internacional de Liderazgos Populistas Contemporáneos en Europa.” Política Revista de Ciencia Política de Chile, 60:2 (2022), 55-83 (special issue “Populism and Foreign Policy”).
Wajner, Daniel F., and Luis Roniger, “Populism and Transnational Projection: The Legitimation Strategies of Pink Tide Neo-Populist Leaderships in Latin America”, Comparative Political Theory 2:2 (2022), 118–147.
Wajner, Daniel F., “Exploring the Foreign Policy of Populist Regimes: (Latin) America First,” Journal of International Relations and Development 24:3 (2021), 651–680.
Kacowicz, Arie M., Exequiel Lacowsky, Keren Sasson, & Daniel F. Wajner, Unintended Consequences of Peace? Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows (Cambridge University Press, July 2021).
Haftel, Yoram, Daniel F. Wajner, & Dan Eran, “The Short and Long(er) of It: The Effect of Hard Times on Regional Institutionalization,” International Studies Quarterly (2020), 808–820.
Kacowicz, Arie M., Exequiel Lacowsky, & Daniel F. Wajner, “Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows in the Americas,” Latin American Research Review 55:4 (2020), 727–741.
Wajner, Daniel F. “‘Battling’ for Legitimacy: Analyzing Performative Contests in the ‘Gaza Flotilla’ Paradigmatic Case”. International Studies Quarterly 63:4 (2019), 1035–1050.
Wajner, Daniel F. “Learning for Legitimacy: The Gaza Flotilla Case of Meaningful Learning in Foreign-Policy Strategic Planning.” Foreign Policy Analysis 15:4 (2019), 548–569.
Wajner, Daniel F. and Luis Roniger, “Transnational Identity Politics in the Americas: Reshaping ‘Nuestramerica’ as Chavismo’s regional legitimation strategy”. Latin American Research Review 54:2 (2019), 458–475.
Wajner, Daniel F. and Arie M. Kacowicz, “The Quest for Regional Legitimation: Analyzing the Arab League’s legitimizing role in the Arab Spring”. Regional and Federal Studies 28:3 (2018), 489–521.
Wajner, Daniel F., “Grassroots Diplomacy in Battles for Legitimacy: The Transnational Advocacy Network for the Brazilian Recognition of the Palestinian State”, Diplomacy and Statecraft 18:1 (2017), 128–51.
