Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, co-authored an article, “Trump’s Antiliberal Order: How America First Undercuts America’s Advantage” in Foreign Affairs. Together with Daniel Nexon, Cooley writes that Donald Trump’s “presidency will not end the so-called liberal international order, for the simple reason that it has already ended.” The authors argue that “many aspects of contemporary international order- principles and practices such as state sovereignty, the rule of law, and multilateralism … are perfectly compatible with some nonliberal and illiberal forms of politics.”
Cooley and Nexon urge the world to “retire the understanding of international politics encapsulated by the term ‘liberal international order’ because “it is now driving reactionary populists and postliberals to mistakenly support policies that weaken the United States.”
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