Author: Shahid Bolsen

An iron-fisted military policy is almost a requirement of Neoliberalism in the developing world. Maintaining centralised control of all of a country’s resources is essential for the efficient collaboration between local and global elites; it is the only way the local ruling class can retain its power. Under Neoliberalism, the level of poverty, exploitation and…

One of the best mechanisms for camouflaging the fact that a client regime is tyrannical and not even slightly interested in democratic reforms (which no one in power really wants anyway), is the creation of, or the encouragement of, internal conflict. A military government can then impose brutal crackdowns in the name of securing peace…