Freshly published 'Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020' @coco-journal.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020 - Nicholas Lees, 2024

Class is often neglected as a factor influencing foreign policy. While recent research explains the foreign policy positions of states in terms of the preferenc...

I use the Varieties of Democracy project's expert-coded measures of which social groups states depend on for support to investigate whether there are connections between class politics within countries and foreign policy on the international stage. It turns out that they are robustly associated.