Securing negative rights globally required proactive enforcement, not passivity

Evidence

Hayek’s language of negative rights and the power to say no can give a false impression of a passive or inactive state in his normative global order. Yet creating and securing such an arrangement required proactive engagement. Hayek himself was explicit that the international power needed “an authority capable of enforcing [the] rules.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 415

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that the neoliberal ‘negative rights’ order did not mean a weak or inactive state; it demanded active enforcement.
• XREF: connects to: The liberties-versus-security binary justifies sacrificing out-group rights — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 487; Power functions through unexercised possible sanctions rather than actual coercion — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 621; Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346

Broader Connections

• The liberties-versus-security binary justifies sacrificing out-group rights #complicates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 487
• Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion #exemplifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346
• Power functions through unexercised possible sanctions rather than actual coercion #expands (0.70) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 621