Globalism versus Nationalism Rawi Abdelal April 2019 The past is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Globalism versus Nationalism Rawi Abdelal April 2019 The past is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Globalism versus Nationalism Rawi Abdelal April 2019 The past is never dead. Its not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Abdelal 2 Three themes, three cycles: A great power transition, still unfolding Borders and the Other
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%
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Immigration
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Capitalism
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Internet
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Globalization
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The Green movement
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Feminism
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Social liberalism
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Multiculturalism
79 49 51 62 62 60 68 71 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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BREXIT:
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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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