"the rise of government economic planning across the global south and its threat to corporate autonomy at home, and the challenge to the material basis of organized labor’s power in the old manufacturing industries of the US Northeast and Midwest"
Labor unions hit the peak of their power in the mid-20th century, in most of the Western developed nations. The developed nations all suffered different kinds of deindustrialization after 1973, though the English speaking nations suffered the most, perhaps because their currencies were overvalued relative to the changing circumstances in the global South (in other words, overvalued in the era of OPEC).
When we try to figure out the real role that Nixon played in history, it is important to tease apart which issues he faced that were uniquely American, versus those issues that were global, and faced by every leader.