Our current Global Governance Debates on “Liberalism and Global Governance” continues with Prof. David Sylvan’s response to Prof. Michael Barnett’s post. Using the core notion of liberalism – a limitation on what states can do to individuals – Prof. Sylvan argues that while States can be considered liberal or illiberal, the international order might be best referred as a-liberal. 

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