9781509538676-1509538674-The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

ISBN-13: 9781509538676
ISBN-10: 1509538674
Edition: 1
Author: Patrick Porter
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Polity
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781509538676
ISBN-10: 1509538674
Edition: 1
Author: Patrick Porter
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Polity
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

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The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump (ISBN-13: 9781509538676 and ISBN-10: 1509538674), written by authors Patrick Porter, was published by Polity in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other International & World Politics (Politics & Government) books. You can easily purchase or rent The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used International & World Politics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values.

The False Promise of Liberal Order exposes the flaws in this nostalgic vision. The world shaped by America came about as a result of coercion and, sometimes brutal, compromise. Liberal projects - to spread capitalist democracy - led inadvertently to illiberal results. To make peace, America made bargains with authoritarian forces. Even in the Pax Americana, the gentlest order yet, ordering was rough work. As its power grew, Washington came to believe that its order was exceptional and even permanent - a mentality that has led to spiralling deficits, permanent war and Trump. Romanticizing the liberal order makes it harder to adjust to today's global disorder. Only by confronting the false promise of liberal order and adapting to current realities can the United States survive as a constitutional republic in a plural world.

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