The False Promise of Liberal Order. Patrick Porter

The False Promise of Liberal Order

      Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

      Patrick Porter

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      Copyright © Patrick Porter 2020

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      First published in 2020 by Polity Press

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3869-0

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      Names: Porter, Patrick, 1976- author.

      Title: The false promise of liberal order: nostalgia, delusion and the rise of Trump / Patrick Porter.

      Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA: Polity, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A radical critique of US-led liberal foreign policy”-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019047003 (print) | LCCN 2019047004 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509538676 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509538683 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509538690 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Trump, Donald, 1946- | Hegemony--United States. | World politics. | Liberalism. | United States--Foreign relations--20th century. | United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

      Classification: LCC JZ1480 .P664 2020 (print) | LCC JZ1480 (ebook) | DDC 327.73--dc23

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Acknowledgements

      I am grateful to Louise Knight at Polity for talking me into this, and to Inès Boxman who helped steer it through. Likewise, I am grateful to Chris Preble for talking me into the first version, which the Cato Institute kindly published and permitted us to draw on. And for permissions to reproduce material, thanks are due to Taylor & Francis, The Washington Quarterly, Daniel Immerwahr and Josh Shifrinson. I am grateful, for everything, to my wife Jane Rogers and to Hugh, our first-born, and to my family Brian, Muriel, Emily and Patrick, and to Frances Rogers for keeping the fires burning.

This book grew out of many conversations with friends, colleagues and worthy adversaries. My gratitude goes to David Blagden, Jeanne Morefield, Robert Saunders, Joshua Shifrinson, Tanisha Fazal, Michael Mazarr, Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer, Apratim Sahay, Justin Logan, John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Jennifer Lind, Robert Kagan, John Ikenberry, Daniel Deudney, Kori Schake, Jake Sullivan, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Barry Posen, Charles Glaser, Thomas Wright, David Adesnik, Hal Brands, Gil Barndollar, Peter Hitchens, Malcolm Chalmers, Daniel Deudney, Matt Fay, Michael Lind, Rebecca Lissner, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Asaf Siniver, Jamie Gaskarth, David Dunn, Mark

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