A Leading Historian’s Blueprint for Saving the Rules-Based World Order from Trump’s Tariff Tsunami.

Have you ever felt alarmed as trade wars pit nations—and people—against each other?
Do you worry that rising protectionism could undermine decades of peace and prosperity?
Are you searching for clarity amid growing authoritarian threats to global democracy?

For over eighty years, the rules-based world order has underpinned unprecedented peace, economic growth, and the spread of democracy.

Yet today, that architecture is crumbling.

Drawing on incisive original research, Jones exposes how unilateralism, populist disruption, and economic coercion have hollowed out the institutions we once took for granted—and he equips you with a clear roadmap to repair them.

In this volume Steve Jones charts the extraordinary journey from Churchill and FDR’s secret 1941 meeting off Newfoundland—which birthed the Atlantic Charter—to the seismic trade battles of the 21st century.

Rising tariffs, eroded alliances, and emboldened autocrats threaten to pull us back into a darker age of conflict and competition.

From Roosevelt and Churchill’s vision in the Atlantic Charter to today’s trade wars and fractured alliances, this volume charts the turbulent evolution of the rules-based international order.

• How tariff wars, authoritarian resurgence, and democratic backsliding erode cooperation.

• Why U.S.–China relations may hold the key to global stability.

• The provocative idea of a Pacific Charter—a 21st-century counterpart to the Atlantic Charter—envisioned to meet modern challenges.

Don’t let the ideals of 1941 slip away, arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to defend democracy, global trade, and peace in an age of disruption.