A big, grand sweeping and important argument. Geopolitics and Democracy makes a powerful case that Western governments got well ahead of what their populations would support when they decided to deepen and broaden the liberal international order after 1990.
Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research focuses on international security, domestic politics and foreign policy, and party politics. His published work includes Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy, which won the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Prize for best book on politics and history.
Brian Burgoon is Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), and the former Academic Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). His research focuses on the politics of economic globalization, immigration,
inequality, and welfare and labor-market policy. His work has been published in leading journals in political science, economics, sociology, European studies, and international relations.