Observers from both the political left and the middle were afraid that unregulated neoliberalism would contribute to a reactionary revolution that would derail the whole project of globalism. The next logical step for establishment observers, including Ian Bremmer, is to diagnose the collapse of globalism and to imagine what the road back from loss could look like, considering the wind and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
This is the subject of the book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer. In his account, the collapse of globalism is not based on Rapkay and Trump but stems from a broader configuration of political and economic powers that are reshaping the policies of both developed and emerging countries.
The fundamental thesis of Bremmer’s book is that globalism has left more and more significant parts of the middle class behind in the developing world and has not fulfilled the demands of the rising working and middle classes for higher living conditions in the developed world either. The weaknesses of globalism have been channeled by conservative governments into various types of “us vs. them politics,” which are everywhere a decidedly counter-productive solution to the pressures of multicultural capitalism.
ANTI-GLOBALIZATION REBELLION
Bremmer in Us vs Them accepts the collapse of globalism but remains committed to its strategic paradigms. He believes that the anti-globalization rebellion is understandable
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