Neoliberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy From Carter to Trump
While there has been a flood of scholarly efforts to extend, adapt, and revise Foucault’s exploration of the emergence and operations of neoliberalism, the study of foreign policy has remained steeped in the analysis of partisanship, institutions, policie
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Catherine V. Scott
Neoliberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy
Catherine V. Scott
Neoliberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy From Carter to Trump
Catherine V. Scott Agnes Scott College Decatur, GA, USA
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Preface
On August 20, 2016, The New York Times published two adjacent front page stories, one about Donald Trump’s opaque financial holdings and the other detailing the Clinton Foundation’s receipt of millions of dollars from foreign donors while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State (Chozik and Elder 2016; Craig 2016). In Trump’s case, debt to foreign lenders could be compromising, and in Clinton’s case, dubious donations might have already compromised her ability to act in the public interest. While the two stories highlight more immediate problems posed by a real estate mogul becoming president and the tightly knit relationship between the Clinton Foundation and wealthy donors from Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, at a deeper level they crystallize patterns in foreign policy that have been under way since the Carter era. This book traces these deeper developments, particularly how changes in political economy—from the World War II Keynesian compromise to neoliberalism and austerity—have both reconfigured longstanding categories of analysis such as “tough guy” masculinity and superpatriotism, and make i
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