liberal world order Concepts

The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words

. After the First World War, Japan was a member in good standing of the victorious Allied coalition, not only embracing Wilson’s vision of a liberal world order but urging the West to live up to its ideals. The Japanese delegates in Paris in 1919, led by Prince Saionji, a man who had

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terms of his personal style. We will review that first. In the second term, he is engaging in a much more profound disruption of the liberal world order. The most striking thing to emerge from the first term was that Trump’s overriding political belief is not in any set of ideas but

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Trump won the 2024 election, the global order was under severe threat. The Axis of Autocracy makes no secret of its desire to overthrow the liberal world order. Xi has declared that it is time for China to lead ‘the reform of global governance’ and move closer to centre stage. Putin has pronounced

This America: The Case for the Nation

by Jill Lepore · 27 May 2019 · 86pp · 26,489 words

and a vigilante campaign of terrorism, leading to a decades-long struggle for civil rights, even as the United States became the leader of a liberal world order. If American historians didn’t always succeed in affirming a common history during these tumultuous years—and they didn’t—they nevertheless engaged in the

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artifice, a fiction, had long been clear. After the Second World War, even as Roosevelt was helping to establish what came to be called the liberal world order, internationalists began predicting the end of the nation-state, Harvard political scientist Rupert Emerson declaring “that the nation and the nation-state are anachronisms in

Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of an Age of Upheaval

by Jason Cowley · 15 Nov 2018 · 283pp · 87,166 words

the national interest has alarmed the Anglo-American foreign policy establishment, which considers Trump to be a clear and present danger to the rules-based liberal world order. The urgent challenge facing the West in an age of intensifying nationalism, great power rivalry and demagogic plutocracy will be to hold together the alliance

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it to me, Corbyn has unlocked something long repressed on the left. His consistency, his uncompromising socialism and his hostility to American power and the liberal world order have inspired many who turned away from Labour after the Iraq War to re-engage with politics. He has awakened, too, the interest of young

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. Rather, it would be cautiously ‘realist’: she reaffirmed Britain’s commitment to free trade, to multilateral institutions such as NATO and to the rules-based liberal world order, but conceded the limits of Western liberalism, which, she said, cannot be exported or imposed by military intervention. May and her advisers understand that liberal

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

by Michael Lind · 20 Feb 2020

equivalent is the Trump administration’s transactional approach to treaties and international organizations, which tend to be venerated by technocratic neoliberals as pillars of a “liberal world order.” In the economy, today’s populist leaders tend to be economic nationalists, opposing global labor arbitrage policies of offshoring and mass immigration, which the overclass

Corbyn

by Richard Seymour

majority of journalists and politicians that something miraculous was taking place: globalisation. The world was converging, under the relatively benign tutelage of Washington, toward a liberal world order. With the vast global expansion of trade availed by the global rollback of capital controls and tariffs, a series of institutions of global governance sprang

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way

by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words

as staying loyal to Microsoft when Apple has a better product. Join us, and revel in the righteousness of your solipsistic anger. Nothing the neo-liberal world order produced suited the consumer society as well as the thinkers who purported to oppose it. It took one more war and one more professor for

How Long Will Israel Survive Threat Wthn

by Gregg Carlstrom · 14 Oct 2017 · 337pp · 100,541 words

came at a fortuitous time for the Netanyahu government, days after Trump’s election, while the West was preoccupied with the seeming demise of the liberal world order. Then the attorney general piped up again, warning that any effort to authorize Amona would undermine the Supreme Court and the separation of powers. So

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

by Francis Fukuyama · 7 Apr 2004

that politics in the twentieth century were heavily shaped by controversies over the appropriate size and strength of the state. The century began with a liberal world order presided over by the world’s leading liberal state, Great Britain. The scope of state activity was not terribly broad in Britain or any of

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even narrower. There were no income taxes, poverty programs, or food safety regulations. As the century proceeded through war, revolution, depression, and war again, that liberal world order crumbled, and the minimalist liberal state was replaced throughout much of the world by a much more highly centralized and active one. One stream of

The end of history and the last man

by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 words

satisfied with global governance, that is, partial international institutions that promote collective action among nations and that create some degree of accountability among them. A liberal world order that is both just and feasible would have to be based not on a single, overarching global institution, but rather on a diversity of international

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words

onwards, the old European consensus about democracy and the rule of law was increasingly breached. Gradually, Europe began to see the start of an anti-liberal world order. When Jarosław Krawczyk and I, long ago, on that snowy winter’s evening in 1999, sat in melancholy conversation, his new girlfriend called by, cheerful