Title Geopolitics and democracy : the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture / Peter Trubowitz, Brian Burgoon

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) Contents Cover -- Geopolitics and Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Solvency Gap -- 2. A Widening Gyre -- 3. Roots of Insolvency -- 4. Reaping the Whirlwind -- 5. Bridging the Gap -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index Summary "A large and widening gap has opened up between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support these objectives. Drawing on an array of cross-national data on Western governments, parties, and voters, Geopolitics and Democracy traces this ends-means divide back to decisions that Western governments made after the Cold War. The key decisions were to globalize markets and pool sovereignty at the supranational level, while at the same time reducing social protections and guarantees at home. This combination of foreign and domestic policies succeeded in expanding the Western liberal order in the quarter century after the Cold War, but at the cost of mounting public discontent and political fragmentation within the advanced industrial economies. The analysis reveals the large extent to which domestic support for international engagement during the long East-West geopolitical contest had rested on social protections within the Western democracies. At a time when problems of great power rivalry, spheres of influence, and reactionary nationalism have returned, Geopolitics and Democracy reminds us that the liberal order rose in an age of social democracy as well as Cold War. 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"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Liberalism -- Western countries Geopolitics -- Western countries Political planning -- Western countries World politics -- 1989- Geopolitics International economic integration Liberalism Political planning Social policy World politics SUBJECT Western countries -- Social policy Western countries -- Economic integration Subject Western countries Form Electronic book Author Burgoon, Brian, 1965- author. ISBN 9780197535431 0197535437

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