<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div><div>On 22 Nov 2014, at 1:22 am, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">As anyone with any familiarity with Civil Society will know, the term Neo-liberal is a very common term of art in Civil Society analyses particularly outside of the 5 Eyes consortia countries.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yes, and as anyone with any familiarity with International Relations theory will know, the term neo-liberal is a very common term of art in the entire field, meaning something somewhat different (though not 100% unrelated). But I do rather suspect that familiarity with IR theory is not common among JNC members, as I've not yet seen JNC analysis that seems particularly informed by it. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The current discussions concerning neo-liberalism in public policy areas generally link directly back to “the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus" style="color: purple;">Washington Consensus</a>”</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yes, yes, just because the way you use the term annoys me doesn't mean I don't understand what you mean by it. </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">For a more direct linkage of these discussions concerning neo-liberalism to IG see <a href="http://alainet.org/active/73028" style="color: purple;">http://alainet.org/active/73028</a></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I'm tiresomely familiar with the argument, thank you, but I still don't agree with it. </div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Do you have anything on that argument that has made it into a peer reviewed journal, BTW? It would be useful to have something to cite. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div></body></html>