Long heralded as ushering in a “flat world,” globalization has in fact exacerbated hierarchies and polarities, both within and between countries. This panel will provide critical perspectives on neoliberal globalization and consider the alternatives. What have neoliberals misunderstood about the politics and economics of globalization? What has been – and what ought to be – the relationship between nation-states and global markets? Will a post-neoliberal world necessarily be a less global one? Or, can the insights of the worldmaking and alt-globalization movements of earlier decades be harnessed to sustain a more equitable global vision? What should become of the existing international and multilateral organizations ranging from the IMF, World Bank, and WTO on the one hand to the thick networks of NGOs that straddle the world on the other? What do longer term historical perspectives and Global South vantage points illuminate that perspectives confined to the contemporary Global North obscure?
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