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Countering our divisive times, this innovative book makes the conservative case in favor of international organizations and cooperation. Dalibor Rohac persuasively argues that far from undermining national sovereignty, the mechanisms of international cooperation have been instrumental to humankind’s freedom, prosperity, and peace. Moreover, he shows that unlike the caricature of international cooperation as a top-down imposition, in reality it is characterized by extreme institutional diversity. Its structures have typically emerged from the bottom up, in response to concrete challenges transcending national borders. Moving beyond empty political rhetoric, Rohac's meticulous research and clear analysis assess and explains the strengths, flaws, and relevant trade-offs of different forms of global governance. A powerful rebuttal to the temptations of nationalist populism, his work is a call to arms for thoughtful people on the center right to defend the central tenets of the post-WWII international order.

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Dalibor Rohac offers conservatives a warning: their 'marriage of convenience' with nationalists will end in disaster. He also offers them a way out. An alternative, cosmopolitan, internationalist conservative tradition has long been dormant on the political right, and his new book is an important attempt at reviving it. -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist, London School of Economics and Political Science It has become fashionable lately to decry 'globalists' and 'globalism' for all manner of ills. With facts and logic, Dalibor Rohac argues the benefits of free trade, open societies, and democratic alliances, courageously taking on his fellow conservatives, who, whether out of opportunism or a misplaced deference to 'the people,' have abandoned all three. -- James Kirchick, Brookings Institution; author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age

Dalibor Rohac offers conservatives a warning: their `marriage of convenience' with nationalists will end in disaster. He also offers them a way out. An alternative, cosmopolitan, internationalist conservative tradition has long been dormant on the political right, and his new book is an important attempt at reviving it. -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist, London School of Economics and Political Science It has become fashionable lately to decry `globalists' and `globalism' for all manner of ills. With facts and logic, Dalibor Rohac argues the benefits of free trade, open societies, and democratic alliances, courageously taking on his fellow conservatives, who, whether out of opportunism or a misplaced deference to `the people,' have abandoned all three. -- James Kirchick, Brookings Institution; author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age

Dalibor Rohac offers conservatives a warning: their `marriage of convenience' with nationalists will end in disaster. He also offers them a way out. An alternative, cosmopolitan, internationalist conservative tradition has long been dormant on the political right, and his new book is an important attempt at reviving it. -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Dalibor Rohac is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies European political and economic trends. He is concurrently a visiting fellow at the Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. He is the author of Towards an Imperfect Union: A Conservative Case for the EU (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), included on the list of best books of 2016 by Foreign Affairs magazine. Before joining AEI, Rohac was affiliated with the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, the London-based Legatum Institute, and the Center for the New Europe in Brussels. Rohac’s analyses and commentary, focused predominantly on the political economy of Europe, have been published widely in the media, including in the Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and Wall Street Journal. His scholarly articles have appeared in professional journals, among them Constitutional Political Economy, Economic Affairs, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He holds a PhD in political economy from King’s College London, an MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford, an MA in economics from George Mason University, and a BA in economics from Charles University in Prague.

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