Globalists – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Globalists – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Imperium, Dominium, Terra https://lpeproject.org/blog/imperium-dominium-terra/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:00:01 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2256 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. About a year before Globalists was published, I presented in Mattias Kumm’s colloquium on Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Social Science Center. It seemed like an ordinary talk until the end when the first question came from someone who...

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]]> On “Commerce and Civilization” – The Question of Order in the Post-Colonial World https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-commerce-and-civilization-the-question-of-order-in-the-post-colonial-world/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:00:56 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2252 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. “Commerce and Civilization!” These two terms formed the dual mandate popularized by Lord Lugard, the first British Governor-General of a united Nigeria. Despite its promise as being the encumbered, pure logic of the market...

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]]> Globalism and the Dialectic of Globalization https://lpeproject.org/blog/globalism-and-the-dialectic-of-globalization/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:00:35 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2247 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists has rightly received praise and critical attention as a groundbreaking study of the ideologies operative in the cloistered domains of international economic law. Indeed, the book has been reviewed favorably by...

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]]> Many Neoliberalisms: Market Logic and Social Values https://lpeproject.org/blog/many-neoliberalisms-market-logic-and-social-values/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:38:18 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2245 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. As many of the other contributors to this symposium have attested, one of the signal achievements of Globalists is the evidence that “neoliberalism” is indeed a coherent set of intellectual commitments, growing like any other ideological...

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]]> Neoliberal Encasement Infrastructure: The Case of International Organization Sovereign Immunity https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberal-encasement-infrastructure-the-case-of-international-organization-sovereign-immunity/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:00:54 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2213 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. Last month, the Supreme Court handed down a historic decision in Budha Jam v. International Finance Corporation, ruling that, under the International Organization Immunities Act (IOIA), international organizations are no longer subject to...

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]]> European Constitutionalism: The Neoliberal Drift https://lpeproject.org/blog/european-constitutionalism-the-neoliberal-drift/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:00:56 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2211 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. We have not yet seen the full story of “law and neoliberalism”, even though a number of legal scholars have written on related subjects from slightly different angles. Duncan Kennedy, for example, has repeatedly attempted to tease out and to...

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]]> The Globalists: Law, Race, and Empire In and Beyond Intellectual History https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-globalists-empire-race-and-empire-in-and-beyond-intellectual-history/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:00:59 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2209 This post is part of our symposium on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. ‘We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not’, proclaimed Tony Blair in 1999, possibly the high-point of (neo)liberal internationalism. In his masterful Globalists, Quinn Slobodian reconstructs the intellectual history of a...

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]]> Neoliberalism: From Law to Resistance https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberalism-from-law-to-resistance/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:00:26 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2206 This is the first of a series of posts on Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Read the rest of the symposium here. There are two recurring themes about neoliberalism and law. One of the themes (often voiced by the Right) is that neoliberalism has become a type of bogeyman, standing in for everything privatized, profit-driven, inequality-creating.

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