A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
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A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs "A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism--both as a political philosophy and as a guide to future actions."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times "The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal international order."--Michael Hirsch, Foreign Policy For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism's long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today's fractured political moment. Creating an international "space" for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence--these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism--reformed and reimagined--remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300230982
ISBN13:9780300230987
Release Date:September 2020
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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History of Liberal Internationalism & Whistling Past the Graveyard
Published by RESEARCH COUNCIL , 1 year ago
A highly readable history of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the western world. Notice that in the context of international relations, the word liberal means unshackled and mostly free. Argument is made that western democratic nations are uniquely dispositioned for this milieu. Membership in this Club was enough to make People's Republic of China dump communist ideology. Exclusion from this club became the obsession of Vladimir Putin during COVID lock down. Now India is landing rovers on the moon.
Unfortunately, all the foreign policy theories were blown up on 7 October. These are pleasant theories to share and ruminate. The west never fully bought into their own liberal internationalism. Rest of the world, not at all. One big feel good fantasy that is miles off the true practices.
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