Conditions driving empire and neoliberal failure remain, producing a ‘second Arab spring’

Evidence

This is one place where I must demur from the otherwise perceptive Jamie Peck (“Zombie Neoliberalism and the Ambidextrous State”). Surely neoliberalism is beset with internal contradictions; but it is also important to have some appreciation for the lack of identity between the neoliberal program and the statecraft that can often fail in its implementation. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1778 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

The economist’s refrain of “this time is never different” (Rogoff and Reinhart, This Time Is Different) is taken to an extreme by Kean Birch, “Have We Ever Been Neoliberal?”: “If financial crises have happened before—and they have, repeatedly [see Roubini and Mihm, Crisis Economics]—then this would suggest that neoliberalism has and does not necessarily play a consequential role in the current crisis.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The conditions driving the 2011 Arab Spring persisted and produced a 2019 second wave.; Crises recurring across eras implies neoliberalism may not cause them — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787; Empire must keep reworking itself and can fail to secure racial regimes — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 105 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The conditions driving the 2011 Arab Spring persisted and produced a 2019 second wave. #corroborates (0.95)
• Neoliberal doctrine must be distinguished from failures in its state implementation #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1778
• Crises recurring across eras implies neoliberalism may not cause them #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787
• Empire must keep reworking itself and can fail to secure racial regimes #qualifies (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 105
• Western impact caused Middle East political formlessness and instability #expands (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1193
• Colonial policy persisted despite clear evidence of its failure #exemplifies (0.70) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 733