A seemingly never-ending stream of observers claim that the populist emphasis on nationalism, identity and popular sovereignty undermines international collaboration and contributes to the crisis of the so-called Liberal International Order (LIO). Why, then, do populist governments continue to engage in regional and international organizations? In my new book with Fredrik Söderbaum and Kilian Spandler, Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional Cooperation, we counter the mainstream image of populist governments as inward-looking, nationalist, sovereigntists and unilateralists, hence inherently opposed to international cooperation. Empirically, we observe that many populists actually ⋙