League mandates pioneered non-sovereign trusteeship that neoliberalism later adapted

Evidence

The mandates have been described as experimental laboratories for techniques of governance and rule. These experiments, I suggest, deeply influenced the neoliberal attempt to submit sovereignty to rules that support a flourishing market and to inculcate the morals of the market. While the locus of sovereignty in the mandates was a topic of great controversy, mandatory powers were generally not considered to be sovereign. Rather, the mandates were held in trust, and the presupposition of a trust, as the conservative thinker Edmund Burke outlined in his famous indictment of the British East India Company, is that any power set over people must be exercised for their benefit. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 89

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mandate as a ‘trust’ model of rule in which power must be exercised for the governed’s benefit — a concept the book tracks into neoliberal economic-constitutional thinking.
• DEEPTHINKING: Under-theorized and counterintuitive: the claim that post-WWI international trusteeship — a governance form explicitly about the ‘dignity’ and benefit of subject peoples — is a direct experimental predecessor of the neoliberal constitutional order is paradigm-shifting for how we periodize both humanitarianism and market rule.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s transnationally-imposed austerity rules descend from League mandate governance — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 93; Mandate governance techniques directly influenced neoliberal attempts to discipline sovereignty — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 89; Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 88

Broader Connections

• Mandate governance techniques directly influenced neoliberal attempts to discipline sovereignty #corroborates (0.97) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 89
• Neoliberalism’s transnationally-imposed austerity rules descend from League mandate governance #corroborates (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 93
• Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement #expands (0.90) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 88