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Is Trump killing the liberal world order?

The world doesn't have a true Liberal International Economic Order anymore, and Trump's actions should be judged accordingly

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Deepak Lal New Delhi
To read the outpourings of the “great and the good” President Donald Trump is killing the liberal world order. The latest example is an article by the deputy director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Kori Schake, titled “The Trump Doctrine is winning and the World is losing”, (The New York Times, 17 June 2018). But is this true? 

In an article in 2005, I had noted that the institutions set up after the Second World War to create a new Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO), after the disintegration of the first British LIEO in the inter-war years, had
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