The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the
The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order by Philip Pilkington
- The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order
- Philip Pilkington
- Page: 240
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- ISBN: 9781509566211
- Publisher: Polity Press
The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order
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Overview
In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of centre-left and right. Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. The US and UK find themselves ill-equipped to compete with China and other non-liberal states within an emerging post-liberal order in which what really matters is industrial capacity, realpolitik and military strength. Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and advancing our own brand of hard-headed post-liberalism can the West survive. No clear-sighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West’s malaise and bold agenda for renewal.