Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order
How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order
 
The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.
 
Beginning with the German and Japanese efforts in the 1930s to establish a system based on empire, race, economic protectionism, and militant nationalism, Cronin shows how the postwar system, established out of a revulsion at the ideas of fascism, repeatedly reinvented itself in the face of the Cold War, anticolonial insurgencies, the economic and political crises of the 1970s, the collapse of communism, the rise of globalization, and the financial crisis of 2008. Cronin emphasizes the links between internal and external politics in sustaining liberal order internationally and the domestic origins and correlates of present difficulties. Fragile Victory provides the context necessary to understand such diverse challenges as the triumph of Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of populism, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order
How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order
 
The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.
 
Beginning with the German and Japanese efforts in the 1930s to establish a system based on empire, race, economic protectionism, and militant nationalism, Cronin shows how the postwar system, established out of a revulsion at the ideas of fascism, repeatedly reinvented itself in the face of the Cold War, anticolonial insurgencies, the economic and political crises of the 1970s, the collapse of communism, the rise of globalization, and the financial crisis of 2008. Cronin emphasizes the links between internal and external politics in sustaining liberal order internationally and the domestic origins and correlates of present difficulties. Fragile Victory provides the context necessary to understand such diverse challenges as the triumph of Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of populism, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

by James E. Cronin
Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

by James E. Cronin

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How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order
 
The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.
 
Beginning with the German and Japanese efforts in the 1930s to establish a system based on empire, race, economic protectionism, and militant nationalism, Cronin shows how the postwar system, established out of a revulsion at the ideas of fascism, repeatedly reinvented itself in the face of the Cold War, anticolonial insurgencies, the economic and political crises of the 1970s, the collapse of communism, the rise of globalization, and the financial crisis of 2008. Cronin emphasizes the links between internal and external politics in sustaining liberal order internationally and the domestic origins and correlates of present difficulties. Fragile Victory provides the context necessary to understand such diverse challenges as the triumph of Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of populism, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300268522
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 01/03/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 549 KB

About the Author

James E. Cronin is research professor of history at Boston College and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Global Rules: America and Britain in a Disordered World. He splits his time between Watertown and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Note to Readers: The Invasion of Ukraine and Liberal Order ix

Introduction: Liberal Order and Its Troubled History 1

1 An Illiberal World of Rival "Orders," 17

2 Defining the Enemy, Crafting Strategy, Imagining a New World 47

3 Toward a Cold War World Order 76

4 In Search of Stability and Prosperity 104

5 Political Stability: Preconditions and Discontents 135

6 Liberalism and Liberal Order, Modified 161

7 The End of the Cold War and the Expansion of Liberal Order 187

8 The Center Ceases to Hold 215

9 Challenges to Liberal Order, at Home and Abroad 243

Conclusion: Fragmentation, Democracy, and Liberal Order 283

Notes 303

Acknowledgments 331

Index 335

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