The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

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 centre-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 financialised 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 clear-sighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West’s malaise and bold agenda for renewal. Also available as an audiobook.

Table of Contents:
Introduction – Navigating Metahistory Chapter 1 – What is Liberalism? Chapter 2 – Liberalism’s Different Modes Chapter 3 – The Rise of Hyperliberalism Chapter 4 – The Dialectic of Liberalism and Illiberalism Chapter 5 – Dispatches from the Traverse Chapter 6 – Blood and Steel Chapter 7: Demographics and Destiny Chapter 8 – Deindustrialisation and the Rise of Funny Money Chapter 9 – Madness: Commercial and Civilisational Chapter 10 – Distorted Diplomatic Dreams of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose Chapter 11 – Neo-Pagan Ritual and the Big Green Blob Conclusion – Our Postliberal Future: A Manifesto

About the Author :
Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional. He is the author of a book on economic theory, The Reformation in Economics and the co-host of the popular geopolitics podcast Multipolarity.

Review :
"Philip Pilkington has written a bold, original and compelling book. It should be read by anyone wishing to understand the sources of our current political and cultural crisis, and to discern a better path forward – that is, it should be read by everyone." Patrick J. Deneen, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame "The Collapse of Global Liberalism is a ruthless dissection of liberalism's failings, and a compelling roadmap to the post-liberal world we already inhabit." Aris Roussinos, contributing editor at UnHerd "Illuminating... Pilkington moves with easy confidence across levels of analysis, from geopolitics to macroeconomics to birtrates to religion, producing a succinct and largely convincing portrait of what's happened and what's ending." Peter Leithart, First Things "Provocative... for readers willing to face it, the prognosis is bracing: Liberalism is not coming back, and what replaces it will depend on how prepared we are to live without its illusions." World "A foundation for a postliberal theory of international order... the liberals and non-liberals alike would be remiss to ignore." Heather Penatzer, Compact "Philip Pilkington provides a bold - and controversial - thesis on the fall of global liberalism." Minxin Pei, Fusion