Making Sense of Rules-Based Anti-Liberalism
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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…