Colonial nostalgia, neo-colonial extraction, or domestic protectionism? three hypotheses on Rubio’s Munich address and the Global South
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2026)
Externe Publikationen
Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel lay out the contours of the new ‘nationalist conditionality regime’: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to the 2026 Munich Security Conference marked a striking departure from post-Cold War diplomatic norms. The speech was not a routine restatement of transatlantic solidarity. It was an assertive articulation of civilisational protectionism, framed around Western re-industrialisation, the acquisition of critical minerals, and the subordination of multilateral development frameworks. For scholars of international development and global inequality, the implications are significant and warrant careful scrutiny.