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

by Patrick Porter

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509538682
• ISBN13: 9781509538683
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"