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SUMMARY:Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and W
 TO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization - Sonja Amadae (MIT)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Western commentators scratch their heads over the new phenomen
 on of illiberalism that has recently gained ground in Europe and North Ame
 rica. This trend toward illiberalism has been identified as a particular f
 eature of developmental progress of states without sufficient constitution
 al safeguards to offer institutional defenses against illiberal tendencies
  (Zakaria 1997). Yet we now can see that even fully developed constitution
 al democracies\, most prominently the US\, have taken this turn. This pape
 r hypothesizes that neoliberalism\, specifically in the form promoted by t
 he International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization\, forms an
  ideological and practical alliance with illiberal developmental trends in
  Eurasia characterized by the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation.\n\nWhile 
 Western institutions tend to at least pay lip service to democratic govern
 ance\, in fact the IMF and WTO sponsor policies that do not recognize the 
 value of grass roots participation in the organization of politics and civ
 il society. Whereas the WTO and IMF stand in opposing spheres of interest 
 from the SCO\, none of these organizations sponsors the celebrated twentie
 th-century marriage of free markets under the duly constituted rule of law
  sustained by democratic politics. Thus\, perhaps the global trend towards
  illiberal regimes with various forms of authoritarian rule should not be 
 surprising given the lack of contemporary robust practical and theoretical
  defense of open and democratic institutions. This paper closes with a pre
 liminary exploration of modes of institutional organization that may suppo
 rt collective socio-technical imaginaries conducive to legitimate particip
 atory governance. It hypothesizes that the price paid for neglecting inclu
 sive public will formation may be deference to authoritarian forms of lead
 ership that resonate with traditional imaginaries of collective purpose an
 d meaning.\n\n[Fareed Zakaria\, (1997) 'The Rise of Illiberal Democracy'\,
  _Foreign Affairs_\, 76(6)\, 22–43.]
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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