Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture

Peter Trubowitz · Brian Burgoon

Sep 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick

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A large, widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core foreign policy principles that Western governments have championed for over half a century. In Geopolitics and Democracy, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a powerful new explanation for the rise of anti-globalism in the West. Trubowitz and Burgoon show that support for globalism has been receding for thirty years in Western parties and legislatures. They trace the anti-globalist backlash to foreign policy decisions that mainstream parties and party elites made after the end of the Cold War. These decisions sought to globalize markets and pool sovereignty at the supranational level while applying neoliberal reforms to social protections and guarantees at home. Geopolitics and Democracy reveals how domestic support for international engagement during the long East-West geopolitical contest was contingent upon social protections within Western democracies. In the absence of a renewed commitment to those social purposes, Western democracies will struggle to find a collective grand strategy that their domestic publics will support.

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Peter Trubowitz is professor of international relations and director of the Phelan United States Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and associate fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Brian Burgoon is professor of international and comparative political economy at the University of Amsterdam, director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), and the former academic director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).

Elliot Fitzpatrick is an actor from London who has performed in the West End, at Shakespeare's Globe, and with the Rose Theatre Kingston. He has narrated over fifty titles, including books by Bear Grylls, and earned a 2021 Audie Award nomination for his work on Caroline Mitchell's The Midnight Man.

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