NIEO opponents reframed Global South demands as an assault on liberal trading principles.

Evidence

As a 1984 TPRC report that Wolf helped write put it, “Developing countries have been engaged in a sustained assault on the liberal princi­ples of the international trading system.” Against special and differential treatment, the goal of NIEO opponents was to promote the idea of one rule for all in the world economy. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 798

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgrom and the idea that equality of rules masks underlying power asymmetry — one rule for all benefits the already-powerful. — connects to: Western powers’ own nationalizations undermined their case against Global South expropriations — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 463; Preferential trade deals for the Global South replaced universal free trade — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 714; Neoliberal reformers framed Global South exemptions as undermining the rule of law. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 797 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The NIEO was a Marxist assault weaponized against Western wealth. #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1765
• Neoliberals rebranded market restrictions as human rights abuses to contest the NIEO. #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 429
• Petersmann rejected rights claims only when they favored the Global South #exemplifies (0.78) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 908