A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

By G. John Ikenberry

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

A World Safe for Democracy is a 2020 book by Princeton political scientist G. John Ikenberry. Ikenberry traces liberal internationalism from Woodrow Wilson through the post-1945 order built by the United States and its allies, and asks whether that rules-based system can survive the crises facing it today.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “[1:05:16] So one book I thought, since we do often talk about the rules-based international order, and it does sound so wonky that I would suggest a wonky book that explains it. The best scholar who's written on this is a guy named John Ikenberry at Princeton. And I think the book is called A World Safe for Democracy.”