Airstrip One

The Transnationalist Right Part II

When I wrote my first thoughts on this phenomenon and began to map out descriptions and categorisations utilised by the Left to describe elements of conservatism that embraced transnationalism: comment received was a standard primer on libertarian foreign policy from Perry De Havilland which seemed to percieve my post as an exploration of transnationalist libertarianism, an oxymoron, if ever I heard one. However, it did not really answer my question - how should we respond to such transnationalist ideas, as invoked on the right, which is affiliated to but rather larger than the libertarian community?

One of the problems of transnationalism on the right is that it is focussed on economic issues, rather than politics and ideology like the Left, and often functions as support for the supranational authority of the IMF, WTO, the World Bank and their more regional clones, EBRD etc. That is why it is far more difficult to engage with their arguments and move towards alternatives.

One example of transnationalism quashing libertarian sympathies in Guatemala.

A good example of an alternative is Tom Borroughes, "How Capitalism Saved Governments From Their Own Folly: The Global Financial System in the Nineties" at the Libertarian Alliance website under Economic Notes (Publications pdf format).