ABSTRACT
‘Globalism’ as a concept provides a ‘context of justification’ for institutions and policies as well as a framework for action that powerfully shapes a conception of shared interests as though it referred to a set of general truths depicting the world. In the longer term it is likely that Trump’s ‘end of globalism’ will slow down world growth temporarily and even risk world recession depending on US domestic electoral opportunities and political trade-offs in demonizing China. Patriotism led the Poles to die to save Poland, the French to fight for a free France, and the Brits to stand strong for Britain. Trump’s new nationalism is based on renewed national self-interest, which, he says, was developed in the aftermath of two world wars that was ‘based on the vision that diverse nations could cooperate to protect their sovereignty, preserve their security, and promote their prosperity’.
