Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents

By Phil Mullan

Reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic have escalated the pre-existing tensions between the US and China and among different Western nations. Confrontations between political globalists and mercantilist nationalists - between supporters of the rules-based international order and proponents of overt protectionism - are fueling ever-stronger international resentments.
Coupling argumentative rigor with a pragmatic, plainspoken approach, Phil Mullan charts out a novel, democratic way past dangerous and self-defeating confrontations towards a future of open international collaboration based on popular participation within nation states. With its clear-eyed assessment of the opportunities and challenges of a more interconnected world - an assessment in which the economic internationalisation underpinning globalisation theories is neither romanticised nor vilified - Beyond Confrontation sets a judicious tone for the big geopolitical themes of our times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839825634
• ISBN13: 9781839825637
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"