Tyler Cowen writes,
In other words, it could be that the fractious and increasingly nationalistic politics of today are how things naturally are — and the anomaly is this decades-long period of cooperation and harmony.
He calls the internationalist approach “liberalism,” and he laments its inability to persist.
Contrast with Yoram Hazony.
For centuries, the politics of Western nations have been characterized by a struggle between two antithetical visions of world order: an order of free and independent nations, each pursuing the political good in accordance with its own traditions and understanding; and an order of peoples united under a single regime of law, promulgated and maintained by a single supra-national authority. . .
Hazony sees the quest for international order as intrinsically imperialist.
Is internationalism liberal or imperalist? http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/liberalism-or-imperialism/
