Open AccessIdeological Hegemony and Global Governance
Author(s) -
Thomas Ford Brown
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.1997.109
Subject(s) - ideology , hegemony , liberalism , corporate governance , state (computer science) , law and economics , sociology , global governance , political science , perspective (graphical) , critical theory , order (exchange) , political economy , economic system , epistemology , law , economics , politics , philosophy , finance , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science
In this paper, I analyze libertarian discourse from the perspective of regulation theory, a~ a hegemonic ideology that underlies the emergence of a new mode of regulation. Within this general theoretical approach, I will also employ frames from regime theory as developed by international relations scholars, as well as the "epistemic community" approach from the same discipline. I want to suggest that free-market ideology could engender the emergence of rationalized global governance in order to maintain free trade, property rights, and other regulatory concerns of the emerging mode of accumulation, and that such a world state could conceivably extend liberalism's life by carrying liberalism to its extreme