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- Title
Rechtsautoritärer Nationalismus oder autoritärimperialer Neoliberalismus? Die USA unter Donald Trump im globalen Beggar-thy-neighbor-Kapitalismus.
- Authors
Solty, Ingar
- Abstract
In an anti-establishment election in the midst of a deep crisis of representation, Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election with two popular critiques of the status quo: (1) a critique of »free trade« capitalism and (2) the imperial politics of previous U.S. administrations, i.e. an attack on the liberal framework of the international economic order. His triumph raised the question of whether his realpolitik would lead to a shift towards economic nationalism, undermining the liberal framework of the international economic order and a structural transformation of globalization. His presidency allows us to study what the nationalist far-right actually does when it rules. To some, the 2017-2018 trade war indicates such a shift in the international political economy based on (selective) protectionism and (partial) imperial retreat. On the contrary, Trump's economic and foreign policies embody a neo-Reaganite approach to intensifying world market integration, while his bilateral transactionalism is merely the strategy to achieve this particular goal. Hence, Trump's economic approach is in fact a continuation of, not a rupture with, Barack Obama's foreign economic policy goals and merely radicalizes Obama's competitive austerity approach in a global beggar-thy-neighbor capitalism.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2, p199
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0946-7165-2018-2-199