American Economic Nationalism: Corporatist, Neoliberal And Neocorporatist Political Strategic Responses To Contemporary Global Systemic Crises

The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to counteract the negative externalities creating vulnerability to global crises. It thereby explicates the political assumptions and prescriptions underlying national strategic models of development. Great power competition for power and influence intensifies in an international political system in which the sources of power and influence increasingly depend upon sustainable development. It explores how reactionary populism emerges from perceived threat to core cultural group traditional supremacy within the national polity. This group heretofore set the institutionalized, stereotyped norm standards of individual and constituency behavior and relations. It highlights the foundational path dependency of the American state being reflected in contemporary American white populist status grievances. They utilize the language of conservative evangelical Christian identity to mobilize their social movement political resources. American foundational colonial ideologies in early modern capitalist plantation-based slavery and legacies of de facto casteism are a symbol set. Postwar emerging transnational normative authority centers reflected in international law progressively challenge the utilitarian relevance of these traditional, stereotyped norms and ethics.