Hello, New World Order!
The author is professor of politics and director of the International Graduate Program in Politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai
’s recent cover and lead editorial Goodbye Globalization reads firstly as a lament and secondly as a deeply inaccurate description of what’s emerging and likely to come. It’s not a surprising position for a magazine long committed to global economic liberalism, but in fact this apocalyptic narrative has been building for some time. Indeed, it was already a well-worn theme before the current global pandemic: having fretting for several years about China’s
