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SUMMARY:Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World - Marc-Will
 iam Palen\, University of Exeter
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:Today\, free trade is often associated with right-wing free ma
 rketeers. In this counterhistory of an idea\, _Pax Economica_ explores how
 \, beginning in the 1840s\, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the
  peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twentieth
  century\, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals\, socialist internatio
 nalists\, feminists\, and Christians envisioned free trade as essential fo
 r a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course\, this vision was at od
 ds with the era’s strong predilections for nationalism\, protectionism\,
  geopolitical conflict\, and colonial expansion. For some of its most radi
 cal left-wing adherents\, free trade represented a hard-nosed critique of 
 imperialism\, militarism\, and war. This anti-imperial component of free t
 rade was a phenomenon that came to encompass the political left wing withi
 n the British\, American\, Spanish\, German\, Dutch\, Belgian\, Italian\, 
 Russian\, French\, and Japanese empires. The left-wing vision of a “pax 
 economica” evolved to include supranational regulation to maintain a pea
 ceful free-trading system—which paved the way after World War II for suc
 h institutions as the United Nations\, the European Union\, and the World 
 Trade Organization\, as well as the NIEO.
LOCATION:Audit  Room (Old Lodge)\, King’s College
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