campaigns for president as the Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000, Nader presented himself as the protector of democratic principles against the neoliberal forces of globalism. Unlike Buchanan's nationalist version, however, Nader's brand of protectionism refuses to stoke the fires of popular resentment against ethnic minorities, recent immigrants, or welfare recipients. Indeed, he always returns to the idea that globalism must be opposed by an international alliance of egalitarian forces. He also emphasizes that the elimination of poverty and the protection of the environment constitute moral imperatives that ought to transcend the circumscribed territorial frameworks of nation or region.