The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

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Philip Pilkington

The Collapse of Global Liberalism

And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

Philip Pilkington

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Polity Press
30 May 2025

Geopolitics; Economics & Business; Political economy

In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of centre-left and right.

Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. The US and UK find themselves ill-equipped to compete with China and other non-liberal states within an emerging post-liberal order in which what really matters is industrial capacity, realpolitik and military strength. Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and advancing our own brand of hard-headed post-liberalism can the West survive.

No clear-sighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West’s malaise and bold agenda for renewal.

By: Philip Pilkington
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781509566228
ISBN 10: 1509566228
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional. He is the author of a book on economic theory, The Reformation in Economics and the co-host of the popular geopolitics podcast Multipolarity.

Reviews for The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

""Philip Pilkington has written a bold, original and compelling book. It should be read by anyone wishing to understand the sources of our current political and cultural crisis, and to discern a better path forward – that is, it should be read by everyone."" Patrick J. Deneen, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame ""The Collapse of Global Liberalism is a ruthless dissection of liberalism's failings, and a compelling roadmap to the post-liberal world we already inhabit."" Aris Roussinos, contributing editor at UnHerd ""Illuminating... Pilkington moves with easy confidence across levels of analysis, from geopolitics to macroeconomics to birtrates to religion, producing a succinct and largely convincing portrait of what's happened and what's ending."" Peter Leithart, First Things