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If last year our theme was that ‘nationalism is back in fashion’, the most marked development since then on the economic front has been something traditionally associated with nationalism: the rise of protectionist sentiment in some of the major economies, and with it a feeling of insecurity which leads nations to move away from the ‘multilateralist’ ideals of the post-Second World War period towards nationalist strategies, bilateral trade deals and economic decisions based on strategic considerations.
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Turner, B. (2006). Looking Back. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2007. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271357_1
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