As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just beginning.

Review of The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order by Philip Pilkington (Polity Books, 2025).

Many of the cornerstones of the postwar liberal order are being shattered. The focus of Donald Trump’s second presidency has largely been about overturning liberal norms, whether that means running roughshod over the World Trade Organization with his global tariff offensive or publicly dismissing the United Nations as irrelevant and sanctioning the International Criminal Court. Perhaps most blatantly of all, his proposed schemes f

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