Liberal and Illiberal Internationalisms

The twenty-first century is awash with diagnoses of the end of liberal internationalism. In both popular and academic manifestations, declarations of liberal internationalism's 'crisis' tend to assume that the term has a stable meaning that is clearly differentiated from illiberal int...

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Published in:Journal of world history 2020-03, Vol.31 (1), p.1-9
Main Authors: Hetherington, Philippa, Sluga, Glenda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
21st century
Declarations
Historical text analysis
Historiography
History
Ideology
International
Internationalism
Islamism
Jewish people
Liberalism
Meaning
Modernity
Political activism
Politics
Religion
Secularism
Variants
World history
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Summary:The twenty-first century is awash with diagnoses of the end of liberal internationalism. In both popular and academic manifestations, declarations of liberal internationalism's 'crisis' tend to assume that the term has a stable meaning that is clearly differentiated from illiberal internationalist variants. The aim of this special issue of the Journal of World History is to interrogate this assumption. We argue that a historical view of internationalism highlights the interrelation between and the mutual dependence of liberal and illiberal internationalisms since 1880. Taken together, the essays collected here position the politics of internationalism at the centre of a new historiography that rejects an axiomatic relationship between the liberal and the international. They seek to rethink how liberal and illiberal cooperated, co-mingled and co-produced one another on the international plane.
ISSN:1045-6007
1527-8050
1527-8050
DOI:10.1353/jwh.2020.0000