Murray Rothbard with Quinn Slobodian

Foreign Front traces how anti-communist politics after World War II intersected with economic ideas and the formation of transnational networks advocating market-oriented policies. Quinn Slobodian explores the roles institutions and intellectuals played in shaping Cold War and postwar political economies. The book highlights continuities between anti-communist strategies and later neoliberal institutional designs. Slobodian draws on archival research across countries to map these global intellectual currents. The work illuminates how ideological battles against communism helped create structures favorable to market-driven governance.

In 'Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,' Quinn Slobodian challenges the common perception that neoliberals aim to shrink government and abolish regulations. Instead, he argues that neoliberalism emerged to redeploy government and regulatory frameworks at a global level to protect and expand capitalism. The book follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the formation of the World Trade Organization, highlighting their efforts to create supranational institutions that insulate global markets from national governments and democratic demands. Slobodian's work provides a nuanced analysis of the 'Geneva School' of neoliberalism and its impact on global economic integration and democracy.