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Foreign Affairs: Reading Schmitt in Beijing

How China’s Rise Provoked America’s Illiberal Turn

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  • By Benn Steil
    Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

The world is going to Schmitt: Carl Schmitt, that is—the famed and shamed “crown jurist” of the Nazi regime.

In a piece for Foreign Affairs, spotlighting the United States, I make the case that Schmitt has emerged as illiberalism’s answer to Fukuyama.