First Paragraph

The claim of this book is that global liberalism, after reaching its peak in the post-Cold War period, is finally collapsing. This is an enormous claim. Not just in terms of its ramifications for the world but also in terms of simply understanding why it is happening and what it means. Liberalism as a project - as a global project - is around half a millennium old. The ideology of liberalism today permeates the way we think at the deepest and most fundamental level, about the economy, about human autonomy, about the common good - really, about everything. This means that, even if the thesis of this book is correct, it is an extremely difficult topic to write about simply because it is so all-encompassing and so complex.

- From The Collapse of Global Liberalism (And the Emergence of the Post-Liberal World Order) by Philip Pilkington