• East/West: New Divisions, New Connections in a Populist Political Reality 

      Vaagan, Robert Wallace (Intercultural Communication Studies;Vol 28, No 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper takes as its title the overall theme of the 25th Conference of The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS). Delivered as the brief presidential address at the opening of the ...
    • Political rhetoric, populism, leadership and intercultural communication 

      Vaagan, Robert Wallace (Bd. 111: Guntars Dreijers/Jānis Sīlis/Silga Sviķe/Jānis Veckrācis (eds.);Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication, Conference object, 2020)
      Taking as a starting point a politically motivated mass killing in Norway in 2011, the article argues that this was not an isolated incident but forms part of a broader European surge of right-wing extremism and populist ...