liberal world order Concepts

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

Globalists

by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words

they wanted to conserve. Wilhelm Röpke, who taught in Geneva for nearly thirty years, believed that exactly this division would be the basis for a liberal world order. The ideal neoliberal order would maintain the balance between the two global spheres through an enforceable world law, creating a “minimum of constitutional order” and

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” as on national laws.51 In Röpke’s view, membership in international society was synonymous with being a responsible actor in the free market. The liberal world order, the heir of a Christian order, was defined as a system of formally ungoverned economic expectations and modes of interaction—it was a community of

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Studien, special issue no. 1 (1978): 45. 23. On the escalation of criticism, see Ryan M. Irwin, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). A Special Committee on Apartheid was formed in the UN in 1963. Roland Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of

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

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018

the United Nations. President Trump has sharply attacked the G7, NATO, and the European Union, breaking diplomatic norms and deeply undermining the pillars of the liberal world order. He has attacked and sought to destabilize some of America’s most stalwart allies, including leaders in Canada, Germany, and the UK, while expressing warm

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

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 Dec 2007 · 334pp · 98,950 words

these policies became so obvious, thanks to Britain’s spectacular economic success, that other countries started liberalizing their trade and deregulating their domestic economies. This liberal world order, perfected around 1870 under British hegemony, was based on: laissez-faire industrial policies at home; low barriers to the international flows of goods, capital and

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-introduced tariffs. The resulting contraction and instability in the world economy, and then, finally, the Second World War, destroyed the last remnants of the first liberal world order. After the Second World War, the world economy was re-organized on a more liberal line, this time under American hegemony. In particular, some significant