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Book Talk – The National Interest: Politics After Globalization
Philip Cunliffe discusses his new book with QI's Zachary Paikin.
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In the past thirty years, skepticism of globalization has spread across the globe, a trend driven by the belief amongst various populaces that bureaucrats and elites have lost touch with a given country’s national interest. President Trump’s “America First” mantra has encapsulated this movement, an attempt to restore U.S. trade and foreign policy to national interest above all else.

In his new book, The National Interest: Politics After Globalization, Philip Cunliffe explains the recent ascendance of ‘the national interest,’ positing it in opposition to both liberal globalism and populist demagoguery, and makes a case for forging nations anew as the key to democratic renewal in diverse societies. In making his case for a new statecraft based on the loadstar of the national interest, Cunliffe argues that the neoliberal era has eroded state authority but not necessarily the role of the state, and that liberal efforts to discredit nationalism have not succeeded in excising chauvinism from elite mainstream opinion.

September 2025
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Philip Cunliffe

Philip Cunliffe is associate professor of International Relations at the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He has taught international relations at the university level for 14 years, including at the University of Kent and in the Defence Studies and War Studies departments of King's College London.

Zachary Paikin (Moderator)

Zachary Paikin is deputy director of the Better Order Project and research fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also senior fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD), a Canadian international affairs think tank. Previously, Dr. Paikin was researcher in EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.

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