The Globalist Autopsy
Our read
The managerial elite spent thirty years treating national borders and local working classes as friction to be optimized away. Now that the bill has come due in the form of global populist revolts, the institutions are desperately writing historical autopsies to explain why their perfect economic models broke contact with human nature.
Key findings
The Davos Consensus: Believes globalization is an unalloyed good and any resistance is just uneducated xenophobia or economic illiteracy.
The Sovereign Realists: Argue that hyper-globalization systematically hollowed out domestic working classes, stripped local agency, and made a populist revolt inevitable.
The CIRSD analysis is circulating among policy realists and sovereignty advocates who are tired of the 'populism as a mental illness' narrative and want a hard, structural acknowledgment of globalization's failures.
What happened
The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) published a historical autopsy of globalization, framing modern populism not as a temporary temper tantrum, but as a predictable, structural backlash to decades of elite-managed economic integration.
The fight
- The Davos Consensus
Believes globalization is an unalloyed good and any resistance is just uneducated xenophobia or economic illiteracy.
- The Sovereign Realists
Argue that hyper-globalization systematically hollowed out domestic working classes, stripped local agency, and made a populist revolt inevitable.
The brief
The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) published a historical autopsy of globalization, framing modern populism not as a temporary temper tantrum, but as a predictable, structural backlash to decades of elite-managed economic integration.
** The Davos Consensus say Believes globalization is an unalloyed good and any resistance is just uneducated xenophobia or economic illiteracy.
The Sovereign Realists say Argue that hyper-globalization systematically hollowed out domestic working classes, stripped local agency, and made a populist revolt inevitable.
Why now. The CIRSD analysis is circulating among policy realists and sovereignty advocates who are tired of the 'populism as a mental illness' narrative and want a hard, structural acknowledgment of globalization's failures.