A binding free-trade ITO was the first fully articulated postwar neoliberal utopia.

Evidence

Heilperin’s demands for a muscular ITO that would bind nations to ­free trade and potentially shrink them to increase de­pen­dency on world trade was the first example of a postwar neoliberal utopia being articulated in full. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 441

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberals idealized the British free-trade empire as a postnational frame — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 334; Early neoliberals sought to radically shrink national sovereignty in service of free trade. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 440

Broader Connections

• Early neoliberals sought to radically shrink national sovereignty in service of free trade. #expands (0.80) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 440
• Neoliberals idealized the British free-trade empire as a postnational frame #expands (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 334