TY - JOUR
AU - Thornton, William H.
AB -  William H Thornton National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC; william.thornto@ msa.hinet.net In the wishful thinking of the 1990s, it became an article of faith among globalists that geopolitical realism was a Cold War relic that the world was better off without. Some even believed it possible to dispense with history. Such naivety did not survive 9/11. Like it or not, the vaunted age of globalization was giving way to Empire. This intervention will argue, however, that globalism was not so much killed as transformed by 9/11. Far from contesting globalization, as Tom Nairn (2003) would have it, Empire imbibes all the tenets of earlier globalism except one: the neoliberal promise to keep geopolitics out of sight, if not always out of mind. The resulting hybrid—let us call it neoglobalism—is all about power economics, but sees power politics as the best route to that end. The problem is that power corrupts, and without opposition it usually dictates. After the global fall of communism and liberalism alike, the New World Empire is immune to systemic criticism from the Left. That critical default means that only the neoconservative Right is in a position to contest market fundamentalism, and even they 
TI - Neoglobalism: The Fourth Way
JF - Antipode
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00434.x
DA - 2004-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/neoglobalism-the-fourth-way-ATCEJ8IPiD
SP - 564
VL - 36
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -