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Globalism versus Nationalism Rawi Abdelal April 2019
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Globalism versus Nationalism
Rawi Abdelal
April 2019
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
—William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
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Three themes, three cycles:
A great power transition, still unfolding
Borders and the Other
Inequality and the Center
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Rise and fall
A great power transition
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Re-bordering the borderless world
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Some lingering, festering debates
About inequality
The Other
And how the elites let down “the people”
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Debates leading to populism on the Right
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Dutch parliamentary elections, March 2017
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French presidential and parliamentary elections, April-June 2017
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German parliamentary elections, September 2017
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Italian general election, March 2018
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Brazilian presidential election, October 2018
And on the Left
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Italian general election, March 2018
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Mexican general election, July 2018
And Left-Right
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France November 2018 – April 2019
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Belgium December 2018
The weakening middle
Between the angry extremes
With pressures for fragmentation
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Such as the BRexit
As a matter of consequence
And as metaphor
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50%50%
80Immigration
51Capitalism
71Internet
69Globalization
78The Green movement
74Feminism
80Social liberalism
81Multiculturalism
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Share of survey participants who supported both leaving
the European Union and felt negative about a number of
concepts
Share of survey participants who supported both remaining in
the European Union and felt positive about a number of
concepts
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Such as the 2016 U.S. election
As a revolution (of sorts)
And as allegory
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In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Inquiries into the Italian “Tsunami”
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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