Saving the Liberal Order from Itself
The election of Donald Trump is a symptom of a general crisis in international liberal order.
Its costs have been seriously underestimated: relocations breaking the social contract, migratory flows poorly assimilated by societies, divisions between the elites and the masses (the so-called “losers” of globalization), electoral and political crises. Societies should adapt the liberal order to their deep-rooted characteristics, and not accept it as a global and obligatory reality.
Jennifer Lind is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2008.
Article published in Politique étrangère, Vol.82, No.4, Winter 2017-2018.
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