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The Collapse of Global Liberalism

And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

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The Collapse of Global Liberalism

By: Philip Pilkington
Narrated by: George Wesley Holland
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In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of center-left and right.

Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialized economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. The US and UK find themselves ill-equipped to compete with China and other non-liberal states within an emerging post-liberal order in which what really matters is industrial capacity, realpolitik, and military strength. Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and advancing our own brand of hard-headed post-liberalism can the West survive.

No clearsighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West's malaise and bold agenda for renewal.

©2025 Philip Pilkington (P)2025 Tantor Media Politics & Government Liberalism Imperialism Military Socialism Economic disparity US Economy Taxation China Capitalism Economic Inequality War
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Excellent book. Highlights where we are and how we got here succinctly, without being overly simplistic, and caustically, without being sarcastic.

Brilliant. Most refreshing read of the year.

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Overall, very informative but just in a very bold way. Not a book that I will be picking up again.

Good info. Boring book

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Interesting thesis. But very anti-liberal and right wing. But sounds like it has been read by AI. Very robotic.

Interesting

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