How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalism During & after the Second World War public intellectuals in Britain & the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy the prospects of liberty & the decline of the imperial system Without using the term "globalization" they identified a shift toward technological economic cultural & political interconnectedness & developed a "globalist" ideology to reflect this new postwar reality The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates & led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war & expatriation in the 1940s & how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy geopolitics economics imperial thought constitutional law theology & philosophy of science She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron Owen Lattimore Lionel Robbins Barbara Wootton Friedrich Hayek Lionel Curtis Richard Mc Keon Michael Polanyi Lewis Mumford Jacques Maritain Reinhold Niebuhr H G Wells & others Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand & an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal & its origins