In my book Sovereignty or Submission (Encounter, 2011), I argued that we needed to reconfigure the global chess board of world politics. The sovereign democratic nation-state faces two adversaries, one hard and one soft: authoritarian regimes such as China, Russia, and Iran; and also the oligarchical forces of global governance emanating from within the democratic world itself.

Transnational progressives, or globalists, represent a major challenge to democratic nation-states because they seek to transfer political decision-making from democratic nations to supranational authorities and institutions. The decades-long trajectory of the European Union is an example of this phenomenon.

Another anti-sovereignty force is simultaneously at work: the American democracy promotion network.

These globalists include the leadership of the United Nations and the European Union; bureaucrats from the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund; judges from the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court; career officials in the U.S. State Department, the British Foreign Office, and the German Foreign Ministry; American ceos of major global corporations; employees of ngos such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Greenpeace; and prominent American international relations specialists and international lawyers including the leadership of the American Bar Association.

But another anti-sovereignty force is simultaneously at work: the American democracy promotion network. What role, if any, do the promoters of democracy play in the worldwide ideological conflict between democratic sovereigntists and globalists?

The American democracy promotion network is based in organizations such as the