America’s Global Order Can Be Saved
Liberal internationalism has long been supported by a three-legged stool of fear, hope and political leadership.
To the rescue?
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(This is the third and final installment of a series on challenges facing the U.S.-led international liberal order. Read the first and second parts here: America’s Global Order Is Worth Fighting For | America’s Global Order Is in Retreat.)
The first two columns in this series explored the meaning and value of the liberal international order, the challenges it faces, and the need for enduring U.S. leadership if it is to survive. Yet sustaining such leadership requires political support at home, and that support appears to be weak — and getting weaker — today. So how should U.S. leaders go about rebuilding the domestic consensus that is necessary to sustain a global order under strain?