American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation

This paper traces the ‘securitisation’ of US foreign economic policy since the advent of the Bush administration. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. It argues that in the context of US economic and military preponderance in the world order, the US has been unable to resist...

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Main Author: Richard, Higgott
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-823272020-11-01T08:40:54Z American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation Richard, Higgott S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science This paper traces the ‘securitisation’ of US foreign economic policy since the advent of the Bush administration. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. It argues that in the context of US economic and military preponderance in the world order, the US has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitisation of economic globalisation in US policy from day one of the Bush administration, it was 9/11 that firmed up this trend. For the key members of the Bush foreign policy team, globalisation is now seen not simply in neo-liberal economic terms, but also through the lenses of the national security agenda of the United States. Economic globalisation is now not only a benefit, but also a ‘security problem’. 9/11 offered the opportunity for what we might call the ‘unilateralist-idealists’, in the Bush Administration, to set in train their project for a post-sovereign approach to American foreign policy. The paper identifies some intellectual contradictions in current US strategy and raises a series of questions about the implications for world order of the consolidation of the trends identified in the paper. 2016-01-29T02:47:33Z 2019-12-06T14:53:24Z 2016-01-29T02:47:33Z 2019-12-06T14:53:24Z 2003 Working Paper American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 052). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82327 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39821 en RSIS Working Paper, 052-03 Nanyang Technological University 47 p. application/pdf
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American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation
description This paper traces the ‘securitisation’ of US foreign economic policy since the advent of the Bush administration. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. It argues that in the context of US economic and military preponderance in the world order, the US has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitisation of economic globalisation in US policy from day one of the Bush administration, it was 9/11 that firmed up this trend. For the key members of the Bush foreign policy team, globalisation is now seen not simply in neo-liberal economic terms, but also through the lenses of the national security agenda of the United States. Economic globalisation is now not only a benefit, but also a ‘security problem’. 9/11 offered the opportunity for what we might call the ‘unilateralist-idealists’, in the Bush Administration, to set in train their project for a post-sovereign approach to American foreign policy. The paper identifies some intellectual contradictions in current US strategy and raises a series of questions about the implications for world order of the consolidation of the trends identified in the paper.
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title American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation
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