Particularist protectionists include groups who blame globalization for most of the economic,political,and cultural ills afflicting their home countries or regions. Threatened by the slow erosion of old social patterns,particularist protectionists denounce free trade, the power of global investors,the neoliberal agenda of multinational corporations,and the Americanization of the world as practices that have contributed to falling living standards and/or moral decline. Fearing the loss of national self-determination and the destruction of their cultures, they pledge to protect their traditional ways of life from those foreign elements they consider responsible for unleashing the forces of globalization. Particularist protectionists are more concerned with the well-being of their own citizens than with the construction of a more equitable international order based on global solidarity