The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order
The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order

Author: Vittorio Emanuele Parsi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 3030720438

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The ‘Liberal World Order’ (LWO) is today in crisis. But what explains this crisis? Whereas its critics see it as the unmasking of Western hypocrisy, its longstanding proponents argue it is under threat by competing illiberal projects. This book takes a different stance: neither internal hypocrisy, nor external attacks explain the decline of the LWO – a deviation from its original lane does. Emerged as a project aiming to harmonize state sovereignty and the market, through the promotion of liberal democracy domestically, and free trade and economic cooperation internationally, the LWO was hijacked in the 1980s: market forces overshadowed democratic forces, thus disfiguring the LWO into a Neoliberal Global Order. The book advocates for a revival of its original intellectual premises, that in the aftermath of World War II marked the zenith of political modernity.

ICFTU
ICFTU

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Published: 1998

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The Web site of the the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, established in 1949 as a a confederation of national trade union centers, each of which links together the trade unions of that particular country. Membership is open to bone fide trade union organizations that are independent of outside influence and have a democratic structure. The ICFTU organizes and directs campaigns on issues such as: the respect and defence of trade union and workers' rights; the eradication of forced and child labor; the promotion of equal rights for working women; the environment; education programmes for trade unionists all over the world; encouraging the organization of young workers; and sends missions to investigate the trade union situation in many countries.

Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy
Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy

Author: Claude E. Barfield

Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 272

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A penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade liberalization. It also shows how the WTO is moving in a direction at odds with basic democratic principles. The author closes his analysis with some policy recommendations.

A World Safe for Democracy
A World Safe for Democracy

Author: G. John Ikenberry

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0300256094

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A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment. Creating an international “space” for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence—these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism—reformed and reimagined—remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.