The Collapse of Global Liberalism

And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

By: Philip Pilkington

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Paperback | 30 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of centre-left and right.

Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. The US and UK find themselves ill-equipped to compete with China and other non-liberal states within an emerging post-liberal order in which what really matters is industrial capacity, realpolitik and military strength. Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and advancing our own brand of hard-headed postliberalism can the West survive and resist the grim domination of authoritarian foreign states.

No clear-sighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West’s malaise and bold agenda for renewal.

About the Author

Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional. He is the author of a book on economic theory, The Reformation in Economics and the co-host of the popular geopolitics podcast Multipolarity.

Industry Reviews

"Philip Pilkington has written a bold, original and compelling book. It should be read by anyone wishing to understand the sources of our current political and cultural crisis, and to discern a better path forward – that is, it should be read by everyone."
Patrick J. Deneen, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

"The Collapse of Global Liberalism is a ruthless dissection of liberalism's failings, and a compelling roadmap to the post-liberal world we already inhabit."
Aris Roussinos, contributing editor at UnHerd

"Illuminating... Pilkington moves with easy confidence across levels of analysis, from geopolitics to macroeconomics to birtrates to religion, producing a succinct and largely convincing portrait of what's happened and what's ending."
Peter Leithart, First Things

"Provocative... for readers willing to face it, the prognosis is bracing: Liberalism is not coming back, and what replaces it will depend on how prepared we are to live without its illusions."
World

"A foundation for a postliberal theory of international order... the liberals and non-liberals alike would be remiss to ignore."
Heather Penatzer, Compact

"Philip Pilkington provides a bold - and controversial - thesis on the fall of global liberalism."
Minxin Pei, Fusion

"a provocative and fast-paced chronicle of the damage that liberalism has supposedly wreaked on countries' economic, social, political, and psychological foundations."
Foreign Affairs

"Philip Pilkington really doesn't like liberals. I sympathise. [...] his perspective is interesting and somewhat unique."
Grace Blakeley

"Contains genuine insights into some of the changes we are living through"
Law & Liberty

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