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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Description: Populist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers against the āglobal eliteā who run them. These institutionsāpainstakingly built through decades of negotiation and multilateral cooperationāare often seen as passive bystanders, unable or unwilling to push back. InĀ Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist WaveĀ (Princeton UP, 2026)Ā Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark challenge this view, arguing that international organizations are, in fact, strategic agents with the tools to resist populist pressures. Offering fresh theoretical insights and original empirical analysis, they investigate how these institution...