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Louis Wierenga

MA, University of Toronto
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tartu
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Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Political and Strategic Studies, Baltic Defence College

Junior Research Fellow in Comparative Politics, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu

Lecturer in Political Science, University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

Louis Wierenga received his MA from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs in 2014. He is currently a Lecturer in International Relations at the Baltic Defence College, a Junior Research Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, and a lecturer in political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia. Previously he has held guest fellowships at Uppsala University’s IRES (Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies), Sodertorn University’s Department of Political Science; and with the Chair of Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Louis has also held a guest lecturer position at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).

Louis’s research interest include populist radical right parties - specifically leadership and party structure, social media and discursive opportunity structures, youth organizations, transnational networks, foreign policy, and social movement parties and metapolitical actors and their engagements between ideology and party structures. He also focuses on the politics of the Baltic states; information warfare and cyber ops; and the contemporary security environment – changes, challenges, and the major drivers and trends of international security. Louis also serves as a POLAD (political advisor) for scenario-based joint exercises.

He has successfully completed a Horizon 2020 project, “Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism “ with a work package focusing on populism and the populist radical right in the Baltic states.

Currently, Louis is part of a project entitled, “Making Tomorrow’s Leaders” which is a Swedish Research Council project analyzing youth organizations of far-right parties. He is also currently part of a consortium analyzing multilateralism through technology, which has been submitted as a Horizon Europe application.

Docētie studiju kursi

  • PolZ2053 : Populisms un radikāli labējais populisms Eiropā
  • PolZ1092 : Sociālie mediji un digitālais laikmets 21. gadsimtā

Jaunākās publikācijas

Pētniecības tēmas

  • Populist radical right parties:
    • Leadership and party structure
    • Social media and discursive opportunity structures
    • Youth organizations
    • Transnational networks - social movement parties and metapolitical actors and their engagements between ideology and party structures
    • Foreign policy
  • The politics of the Baltic states
  • Information warfare and cyber ops
  • The contemporary security environment – changes, challenges, and the major drivers and trends of international security
  • Social media, technology, and political impact