LIBERALISM AND PAN-ATLANTICISM (II): LIBERALISM, REGIONALISM AND THE ATLANTIC BASIN

The strategic and ideological competition of the Cold War, shaped by the bipolar international balance of power and the counterweight of the Warsaw Pact and COMECON, kept liberal internationalism largely contained within the West. [...] However, in the years following Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost policies—with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolutions in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the USSR— most states in the Second and Third Worlds, particularly in Eurasia and the Southern Atlantic, embarked on a dual transition to market-based economies and open, multiparty democratic systems, albeit with varying l. [...] During the apogee of the unipolar moment, the influence of Francis Fukuyama’s essay and book on The End of History eclipsed that of Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and Morgenthau in both the Northern Atlantic Plus and the Rest, at least for a time. [...] Isbell is the author of Energy and the Atlantic: The Shifting Energy Landscapes of the Atlantic Basin (2012); co-author and editor of The Future of Energy in the Atlantic Basin (2015), and of Energy and Transportation in the Atlantic Basin (2017). [...] ABOUT THE POLICY CENTER FOR THE NEW SOUTH The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) is a Moroccan think tank aiming to contribute to the improvement of economic and social public policies that challenge Morocco and the rest of Africa as integral parts of the global South.