Description: Geopolitics and Democracy : The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture, Paperback by Trubowitz, Peter; Burgoon, Brian, ISBN 0197535410, ISBN-13 9780197535417, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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"--
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Book Title: Geopolitics and Democracy : The Western Liberal Order from Founda
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Geopolitics and Democracy : the Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General, International Relations / General
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Author: Peter Trubowitz, Brian Burgoon
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
