Return to the Real

If there is a message in the #occupy movement for IR and IPE scholars in the United States, it is the warning that the last two decades of academic political abstinence are no longer sustainable. There is no way around it. Co-opted by liberal triumphalism of the post-Cold War era (Barder and Levine, 2011), US academia has not only failed to raise its voice loudly and clearly against the increased militarization of a Wall Street-led casinocapitalism, whose violence which has been embedded deep in the fabric of everyday American life; it has also basked in its benefits...