Making Sense of Rules-Based Anti-Liberalism

Dozens of regimes around the world are anti-liberal--autocratic to varying degrees--but also big fans of a "rules-based" international order, which for the past 50 years or so has been a neoliberal economic order. Not a coincidence.

The reason an anti-liberal might also be a neoliberal seems rather obvious: Because they're kleptocrats and oligarchs who a…