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SUMMARY:Pax Economica: Left-Wing Versions of a Free Trade World
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Marc-William Palen\, Senior Lecturer\, University of Exete
 r.\n\nA PEC Research Seminar\, co-sponsored with the Manchester Jean Mon
 net Centre\n\nToday\, free trade is often associated with right-wing fre
 e marketeers. In Pax Economica\, historian Marc-William Palen shows that
  free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century l
 eft-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea\, Palen explores ho
 w\, beginning in the 1840s\, left-wing globalists became the leaders of 
 the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twen
 tieth century\, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals\, socialist int
 ernationalists\, feminists\, and Christians envisioned free trade as ess
 ential for a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course\, this visio
 n was at odds with the era’s strong predilections for nationalism\, prot
 ectionism\, geopolitical conflict\, and colonial expansion. Palen reveal
 s how\, for some of its most radical left-wing adherents\, free trade re
 presented a hard-nosed critique of imperialism\, militarism\, and war.\n
 \nPalen shows that the anti-imperial component of free trade was a pheno
 menon that came to encompass the political left wing within the British\
 , American\, Spanish\, German\, Dutch\, Belgian\, Italian\, Russian\, Fr
 ench\, and Japanese empires. The left-wing vision of a “pax economica” e
 volved to include supranational regulation to maintain a peaceful free-t
 rading system—which paved the way for a more liberal economic order afte
 r World War II and such institutions as the United Nations\, the Europea
 n Union\, and the World Trade Organization. Palen’s findings upend how w
 e think about globalisation\, free trade\, anti-imperialism\, and peace.
  Rediscovering the left-wing history of globalism offers timely lessons 
 for our own era of economic nationalism and geopolitical conflict.
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LOCATION:A3.7\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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