{"product_id":"the-collapse-of-global-liberalism-philip-pilkington-9781509566211","title":"The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 postliberalism can the West survive and resist the grim domination of authoritarian foreign states.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e No clear-sighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West's malaise and bold agenda for renewal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Pilkington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150956621X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509566211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Philip Pilkington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46618142605567,"sku":"9781509566211","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f90cb691-24b0-430d-9598-aafb87e9c919.jpg?v=1740069282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-collapse-of-global-liberalism-philip-pilkington-9781509566211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}