In Geopolitics and Democracy Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a powerful new
explanation of why the Western liberal international order--which dominated for a half century
after World War II--has buckled under the pressures of anti-globalist political forces in
recent times. They trace the anti-globalist backlash to foreign policy decisions made by
Western leaders in the decade after the Cold War's end. These decisions sought to globalize
markets and pool national sovereignty at the supranational level while undercutting social
protections at home--a combination of policies that succeeded in expanding the Western liberal
order but at the cost of mounting public discontent and political fragmentation.
