In his 1942 book International Economic Disintegration, which was the culmination of the proj­ect begun at Annecy in 1936, Röpke laid out a dynamic reminiscent of Robbins and Hayek by arguing that the international order had been undermined by the distorting demands of special interests empowered by popu­lar democracy. He summarized this point at the Walter Lipp­mann Colloquium when he said, "It is not enough to say that economic nationalism is the result of a lack of intelligence among leaders; it is economic interests and professional groups that engage in nationalist policy, it is special interests that dissolve the State."

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 384