COVID-19 and Scottish Independence: The Instrumentalisation of the Pandemic in the Constitutional Debate by Nelly Gérard

“…The article concludes that the Covid-19 pandemic is instrumentalised in the larger constitutional debate, either to promote independence and constitutional reform in the case of the SNP, or to undermine nationalist rhetoric through the use of depoliticisation strategies in the case of the Scottish Conservative Party.…”
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The 2011 Elections in Wales and the Role Played by Civil Society by Moya Jones

“…This is in sharp contrast to the UK government, which is controlled by a Conservative-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats, and Scotland which is dominated by the Scottish Nationalist Party. …”
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Euroscepticism in France: Past and Present by R. I. Blagoveshchenskii

“…The author notes, that in doing so they follow the road travelled by the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which ended up in the European Union membership referendum. …”
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Chine-Malaisie (vue de Malaisie) : menace ou relation consensuelle inscrite dans la continuité ? by Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Rather, deepening ties have benefited Muslim Malays and the conservative nationalist party, the United Malays National Organization (in power since independence in 1957) more than the “ethnic business” and Chinese Malaysian population. …”
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Ideology and Values in Turkey's Foreign Policy by V. A. Avatkov

“…Under the rule of the Justice and Development Party headed by the current President R.T. Erdogan the country began a gradual transition from «Kemalism», which includes the preservation of secularism, ProWestern democratic values and a gradual departure from the Ottoman heritage, to a more conservative domestic and foreign policy, characterized by the strengthening of Islamist and nationalist sentiments, as well as the transition to the policy of «neo-Ottomanism», «neo-pan-Turkism». …”
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Populism and fascism in Europe: case of Romania by Iryna Kiyanka, Nadiya Levytska

“…The article also points to the fact that the fascist party in Romania was short-lived. The dictatorship of Ion Antonesku and his followers, in fact, implemented some points of their program (eg, anti-Semitic activities), adopting mate nationalistic and conservative ideology, but it did not accept the fascist "revolutionary" ideas and totalitarian structures. …”
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Les élections européennes de 2014 : une analyse comparative des résultats aux échelles nationale et régionale by Christian Vandermotten, Pablo Medina Lockhart

“…It opens on a classification of the political parties, leading to an elementary typology : parties developing a leftist critics of the ruling forms of the European policy ; parties agreeing with the ruling trends of the European agenda, either on a social-democratic or labour basis, or on a liberal, conservative or christian-democratic one ; eurosceptic or europhobic parties, on the basis of rightist and/or nationalistic attitudes. …”
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