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The End of the New World Order?

New figures this week showed that populist parties have more than tripled their support in Europe during the last 20 years.

Of course, it's not just Europe where populism has taken hold, with global economic and refugee crises fuelling extremism around the world.

So as the politics of isolationism and nationalism threaten to engulf the world, does this mean that the post-War New World Order is now last century's creed?

Journalist and commentator Paul Mason and Yascha Mounk, a Harvard academic and author of "The People versus Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It" discuss what the prospects for neoliberalism are and what could replace it.

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