Cronin's Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

In a new book, BC Research Professor in History James E. Cronin demonstrates how the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order. Beginning with the German and Japanese efforts in the 1930s to establish a system based on empire, race, economic protectionism, and militant nationalism, Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.