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99 Foreign Aff. 133 (2020)
The Next Liberal Order

handle is hein.journals/fora99 and id is 763 raw text is: The Next Liberal Order The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less G. John Ikenberry When future historians think of the moment that marked the end of the liberal world order, they may point to the spring of 2020-the moment when the United States and its allies, facing the gravest public health threat and economic catastro- phe of the postwar era, could not even agree on a simple communique of common cause. But the chaos of the coronavirus pandemic engulf- ing the world these days is only exposing and accelerating what was already happening for years. On public health, trade, human rights, and the environment, governments seem to have lost faith in the value of working together. Not since the 1930s has the world been this bereft of even the most rudimentary forms of cooperation. The liberal world order is collapsing because its leading patrons, starting with the United States, have given up on it. U.S. President Donald Trump, who declared in 2016 that we will no longer surrender this country ... to the false song of globalism, is actively undermining 75 years of American leadership. Others in the U.S. foreign policy es- tablishment have likewise packed their bags and moved on to the next global era: that of great-power competition. Washington is settling in for a protracted struggle for dominance with China, Russia, and other rival powers. This fractured world, the thinking goes, will offer little space for multilateralism and cooperation. Instead, U.S. grand strategy will be defined by what international relations theorists call the prob- lems of anarchy: hegemonic struggles, power transitions, competition for security, spheres of influence, and reactionary nationalism. G. JOHN IKENBERRY is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea. He is the author of the forthcoming book A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal International- ism and the Crises of Global Order. July/August 2020 133

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