Rowman & Littlefield Publishers In Defense of Globalism

Countering our divisive times, this innovative book makes the conservative case in favor of international organizations and cooperation. Dalibor Rohac persuasively argues that far from undermining national sovereignty, the mechanisms of international cooperation have been instrumental to humankind's freedom, prosperity, and peace. Moreover, he shows that unlike the caricature of international cooperation as a top-down imposition, in reality it is characterized by extreme institutional diversity. Its structures have typically emerged from the bottom up, in response to concrete challenges transcending national borders. Moving beyond empty political rhetoric, Rohac's meticulous research and clear analysis assess and explains the strengths, flaws, and relevant trade-offs of different forms of global governance. A powerful rebuttal to the temptations of nationalist populism, his work is a call to arms for thoughtful people on the center right to defend the central tenets of the post-WWII international order. Review [Rohac] worries that the American right and its European counterparts are succumbing to a latent tendency to spurn international cooperation . . . [and] is surely right to insist that a stable market economy depends on a web of commitments among nations.--The Wall Street Journal Conservative intellectuals in the Trump era have taken to lambasting free trade and international institutions. Dalibor Rohac's In Defense of Globalism could not, therefore, have come at a more opportune time. . . . Prosperity, openness, and peace are not invariable facts of life. As In Defense of Globalism makes plain, at a moment when global institutions are under assault, they require nurturing and the sustained attention of an informed public. Rohac has made an important contribution toward that end.--The American Interest Although 'globalism' is a dirty word in political circles these days, Dalibor Rohac pushes back against unilateralism and 'America First' nationalism, and, in so doing, offers a thoughtful case for modern cosmopolitanism, collective action, and structured international cooperation. Herein you will find a compelling blueprint for a reformed and reinvigorated liberal international order and the vocabulary for giving it political life.--Jerry Taylor, Niskanen Center Dalibor Rohac offers conservatives a warning: their 'marriage of convenience' with nationalists will end in disaster. He also offers them a way out. An alternative, cosmopolitan, internationalist, conservative tradition has long been dormant on the political right, and his new book is an important attempt at reviving it.--Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist, London School of Economics and Political Science I greatly benefited from reading In Defense of Globalism. It is unusual, perhaps unique, for a traditional supporter of a liberal world order to agree in almost every respect with a more conservative supporter of a liberal world order. Beyond agreement, however, Rohac's effective presentation of pertinent information and his original insights are particularly instructive.--Charles Gati, Senior Research Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies It has become fashionable lately to decry 'globalists' and 'globalism' for all manner of ills. With facts and logic, Dalibor Rohac argues the benefits of free trade, open societies, and democratic alliances, courageously taking on his fellow conservatives, who, whether out of opportunism or a misplaced deference to 'the people, ' have abandoned all three.--James Kirchick, Brookings Institution; author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age This is a timely book. In an increasingly fragile age when the liberal order is under siege from the left and from the right, the globalist project needs precisely such a defense--conducted with radical depth in diagnosis and therapy