1 Solving Globalization with National Economic Autonomy Arvid Lukauskas and David E. Spiro, Columbia University Presented at the annual conference of the International Studies Association Toronto, 2014 Abstract Popular authors on globalization, such as Joseph Stiglitz and Dani Rodrik, empathize with protestors against globalization, and suggest that the answer lies in more transparent and democratic institutions. IPE literature, in debating whether openness stems from the international structure of power or from the efficacy of institutions, assumes that institutions provide transparency and autocracy is preferable to a global leviathan. We argue that globalization is the spread of market forces and neoliberal domestic policies. Dissatisfaction comes from the decline of Embedded Liberalism, and the consequent loss of state power to make policies that reflect social preferences on (e.g.) labor and environmental protection. It also stems from a lack of policies to redistribute the benefits of free trade and capital mobility to those groups in society that are hurt them. Changing international institutions so that they are more transparent and democratic is both politically unlikely and will not address social discontents with globalization. What is needed is a return to Embedded Liberalism in institutions that give primacy to the policies of national economies. And those sovereign nations must enable the side-payments from social groups benefitting from trade and capital mobility to the minorities that suffer from them.