Really about building an alternative to counter neoliberal globalization under US hegemony on Western terms.
The argument here is the familiar one, articulated by Margaret Thatcher during the time of Gorbachev: ‘there is no alternative to the neo-liberal model’....
Chinese developments in the past twenty years are a clear alternative to neo-liberalism....
The dynamics of the world system – particularly the rise of semi-core countries and the relative decline of the still dominant United States – leads to a longer term scenario, the developments of counterpoints, of which a Eurasian Union might become an important constituent.
But a Eurasian Union alone could not mount a very serious challenge to the hegemonic core. To build any significant alternative to the neo-liberal global order would need combination with other regions in semi-core countries – particularly the BRICS or members of the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation. Such economic alternatives could prioritise economic development, channel investment and provide employment through administrative forms of collective economic coordination. The ideology is conducive to policies requiring companies to exercise greater social responsibility – to employees, consumers, suppliers and to the environment.
A Eurasian Union could legitimate a different state system and more collectivist traditional values including those developed in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in the past. Such developments would provide the basis for a more pluralist and multi-polar world. It would have as an economic base a capitalist alternative – a type of organised national capitalism.
London School of Economics Blog
Eurasian integration could offer a counterpoint to the EU and the United States, but only in close co-operation with states like India and China
David Lane | Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge
Eurasian integration could offer a counterpoint to the EU and the United States, but only in close co-operation with states like India and China
David Lane | Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge
Don't underestimate the power of ressentiment. It's looking less and less likely that the ROW is just going roll over before neoliberal globalization under US hegemony.
ReplyDeleteThe most corrupt countries getting together
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, for some reason, BRICS insiders associate the word "corruption" to the expression "Tammany Hall".
As always, lessons to be learned come from the North.
:)
Ressentiment wiki was a nice dirge.
ReplyDeleteIt lead me to Max Weber who boils it down to Protestant Capitalism.
Where is Franko and his uber-Greek ?
BRICS are not only the most corrupt but also lack any infrastructure to counter "Tamany hall" and Transparency of the Danish kind or grade.
Yes Protestant capitalism draws upon Greek view of Might is Right as per Weber Schlerer Nietzche
And the weak PIIGs are already under control
The BRICs are next
Anyone would resentful if you were distracted and hosted the Olympics and then this was used as an opportunity to flip Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteBut this is the price the Russians pay for not building anything period.
They only dig stuff out of the earth then wash money with Spaniards at ski and beach resorts in Cancun and Switzerland.
Then go shopping in Germany for more machinery to dig into the earth to start cycle again.
Russian snob mob is very well hand in hand with might is right Greek fascist too ....