Geopolitics, anti-globalism and the future of the liberal world order

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

Join us for the presentation of Peter Trubowitz’s and Brian Burgoon’s new book, 'Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture'.

In their new publication Geopolitics and Democracy, authors Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a new explanation of why the liberal international order has buckled under the pressures of anti-globalist political forces.

They trace the anti-globalist backlash to foreign policy decisions made by Western leaders in the decade after the Cold War’s end. These decisions sought to globalise markets and pool national sovereignty at the supranational level while undercutting social protections at home; a combination of policies that succeeded in expanding the Western liberal order, but at the cost of mounting public discontent and political fragmentation.

These authors will discuss the book and its broader implications for democracy and the liberal order going forward.

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