Neo-liberalism is not really new at all. It is premised on the nineteenth-century liberal belief that unregulated markets, rather than the state or public institutions, will produce all of the social or public goods we need. This Neo-liberal ideology was grounded
that mainstream IR theories have helped to secure the domination of the Global North over the Global South and that global hierarchies of subordination and control are made possible through the social construction of racial, gendered, and class differences. Hence, postcolonial scholars question whether mainstream IR theories can be really helpful in explaining the complexities of contemporary world politics without continuing and justifying the subordination and control of the Global South by powerful