... led to the financial crises of the last couple of years and the ensuing destabilisation of fragile political regimes; (iii) that globalisation is undoing the social bond that has held nation states together as they have developed in the post Westphalian era. The first two charges are the stuff of current popular and populist analysis of the international political economy of globalisation qua economic liberalisation. ... had been progressively abandoned by those states that had pursued them in the past. Moreover, the empirical record on the alleviation of human suffering in the late twen...

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