Book cover of A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order by G. John Ikenberry
International & World Politics

A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment. […Learn More]