Neoliberalism, Globalization and Resistance: The Case of India

Abstract

In the post-Cold War context, liberal international theory appeared to have re-emerged as a powerful explanatory instrument of global change. Traditional liberalinternational theory had lost ground due to challenges from both Realist and Marxist theories. The inability to account for the configuration and deployment of state power and interest and their mutations in an international framework, on the one hand, and the incapacity to explain structural inequalities within nation-states and at the international level, on the other, kept liberal theory away from the centre-stage of academic international relations for a long period of time. I wish to argue that the return of liberal international theory is not based on any considerable recent advancements in liberalism’s conceptual and methodological apparatus. The problems of traditional liberalism continue to mar its explanatory possibilities. It is the contemporary assertion of neoliberalism that is often viewed as the return of liberal internationalism. What we see today is a shift from conventional liberal internationalism to what I call ‘neoliberal globalism’.KeywordsSocial MovementJoint VenturisUruguay RoundResistance MovementWashington ConsensusThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.