Postcolonial Citizenship in the Empire
The neoliberal global order that has arisen after the Cold War has undoubtedly weakened the capacity of most non-Western state to protect their own markets and currencies, or to regulate the economic flows across its border. The shock and feelings of vulnerability vis-á-vis the huge but strangely anonymous forces of global finance capital are palpable in countries like India and South Africa that until the early 1990s had sheltered their economies behind high tariffs and heavily interventionist economic regimes.