In May of 2021, conservative academics from across Europe and the United States gathered in Warsaw, Poland, for a conference inaugurating a Catholic law school that the participants hoped would change the world. This book qualitatively analyzes that conference, “Intermarium: Space of Freedom and Order,” as existing at the nexus of multiple illiberalisms, with the conference and, to a lesser extent, the law school Collegium Intermarium, constituting a shared metapolitical effort by representatives of the Global Christian Right. The book highlights and contextualizes key Global Christian Right narratives around natural order, European identity, and gender, and argues that conference participants integrated these narratives with regionally specific Euroscepticist rhetoric to harness rising Central European populist sentiments in support of Global Christian Right actors’ efforts to effect conservative ideological drift in global society.
