A World Safe for Capital

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Quinn Slobodian. Harvard University Press, 2018. 400pp. The historian Quinn Slobodian has written a book that is likely to upset enthusiasts of the “liberal world order.” In Globalists, he tells the story of how a small set of intellectuals in central Europe laid the foundations of institutions such as the European Union and the World Trade Organization (WTO), commonly held up today as bulwarks of liberal democracy.