Postcolonial assertions of state sovereignty often defended against US-backed coups and economic exploitation

Evidence

In a period of US-sponsored military coups and continuing exploitation by former colonial power, postcolonial attempts to secure the societies of newly independent nations from outside intervention were not merely rationales for authoritarianism. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard condemnation of postcolonial ‘state rights’ as authoritarianism — directly relevant to the reader’s ethics-of-markets debate on self-determination vs. human rights. — connects to: Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181; Resisting capital requires a counter-globalization, not nation-state refusal — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 528; the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”

Broader Connections

• Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181