Atlas partnered with the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation to enter Asia

Evidence

One new focus was Asia. In the mid-1990s, Atlas’s footprint in the continent was limited, with a notable exception in the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research founded in 1987 by Y. C. Richard Wong with the help of Atlas. In the early 1990s, Atlas combined its expertise with the resources of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), which had a presence in China. Together, they organized a workshop in Beijing in 1995. The Atlas team took this opportunity to explore China, Hong Kong, and India. In India, Chafuen met Barun Mitra, a “science writer” with whom he had been in written contact. Mitra founded a think tank in New Delhi the following year, the Liberty Institute, and remained an important contact for Atlas in South Asia. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 554

Categorization

• XREF: The FNF collaboration shows how national political foundations interlocked with the US Atlas network, worth tracing against the other chapters on transnational neoliberal infrastructure.