Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This chapter discusses the need to theorize and empirically analyse the foreign policy of populist governments. After introducing the relevance of the topic and the research question, it outlines the research gap, pointing out that the international dimensions of populism have long been neglected and that we lack a theorization of the impact of populism on foreign policy. It also introduces into the structure of the book and motivates the case selection. For each of the main country cases - Bolivia, India, the Philippines, and Turkey - it discusses the characteristics of the non-populist and populist governments analysed. It further outlines the features of populism in each country, discussing how populists understood the 'people' and the 'elite' and how populism as a thin-centred ideology was combined with thicker ideologies"-- Provided by publisher.