Editorial: The nativist turn one year on: Is the system holding?

Abstract:

As the editors finalized this issue in mid-February 2018, an appraisal of the status of international economic integration seemed in order. This appraisal is inevitably marked by the choices made in Britain and the United States in 2016 in what was, in some ways, a call for ‘economic disintegration’, disengagement from international institutions and establishment of preferences for ‘natives’. This nativist turn continues to pose challenges to the global economic architecture as administrations in these countries and elsewhere attempt to implement them while minimizing what many see as their unavoidably negative economic consequences.