In Defense of Globalism [Hardcover]

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 humankinds 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.Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies political economy of the European Union and transatlantic relations. He is concurrently a research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels.

[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 Rohacs 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 sustainedlór