Philip Cunliffe

The National Interest

Politics After Globalization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With peak globalization behind us, we urgently need a new debate about the national interest. Yet across the West it is a concept that is conspicuous by its absence from public life. All too often the 'national interest' is still seen as a parochial idea - an anachronism in an age of global environmental collapse and 'polycrisis'. Political leaders accustomed to making their case to the world at large rather than to their fellow citizens treat the national interest as an embarrassment.    Yet we will not be able to rise to the challenges that confront us without the legitimacy conferred by the national interest. This book explains how globalising political leaders and bureaucrats smothered the idea of the national interest over the past thirty years - and how we must now revive it if we are to have the democratic strength to meet the international challenges of the future. Instead of seeing the national interest as a matter of foreign policy, this book makes the case that the national interest is as much a matter of internal democratic politics as it is global order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509561100
• ISBN-10: 1509561102
• Artikelnr.: 72803586

Autorenporträt

Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He is the author of several books including Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit (2023) co-written with George Hoare, Lee Jones and Peter Ramsay. He has taught international relations at the university level for 14 years and is one of the co-hosts of the @bungacast podcast. He contributes regularly to public debate on questions of national politics and international order and tweets @thephilippics

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.   What Happened to the National Interest?
2.   The Theory of the National Interest
3.   The History of the National Interest
4.   The Nation: A Story of Abandonment
5.   The Need for a New National Interest
Notes