The Emergence of Globalism is all that the best intellectual history should be: erudite, thoughtful, compelling, and based on an impressive range of sources. It deals sympathetically with its subjects, from English economists like Barbara Wootton to American political scientists like Charles E. Merriam, and especially with the exiled and displaced, including the Italian thinker Giuseppe Antonio Borgese and the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, who were both marooned – for a time at least – in the United States. It roams broadly across the various ‘visions of world order’ these public intellectuals advanced in that extraordinary decade of the 1940s, amid war and genocide and dislocation. It takes a particular interest in the ‘excavation of unrealized plans’ (Rosenboim 2017, 14) and pays due attention not just to the great thinkers of the time, but also to less well remembered ones who nevertheless made important contributions to the big debates.