Europe, International Trade & Finance, North America Transatlantic Relations - What's Next? | What are American and European Officials Doing to Protect and Promote Embedded Liberalism?

What are American and European Officials Doing to Protect and Promote Embedded Liberalism?

Embedded liberalism has guided the Western powers and parts of the developing world for much of the post–World War II era. Yet, in recent years, it has come under increasing strain, precipitating heightened attacks on globalization and international trade. From the political gains made by populists and nationalists throughout the world, to Brexit, to the Bernie Sanders campaign and Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, efforts to roll back the liberal international order that has underpinned the global economy during the post–World War II era have been growing.

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Edward D. Mansfield is the Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Power, Trade, and War (Princeton University Press, 1994); Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (with Jack Snyder) (MIT Press, 2005); Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements (with Helen V. Milner) (Princeton University Press, 2012); and The Political Economy of International Trade (World Scientific, 2015). He writes here with Nita Rudra, a Professor of Government at Georgetown University.