Democracy, Authoritarianism and Global Economic Governance

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Johanna Gautier Morin
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Four weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US Senator John Kennedy accused the Biden administration of indirectly providing over $17 billion to Moscow as Putin was gearing up for war. In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund had indeed approved a historic $650 billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights to help member countries struggling with the Covid crisis. Russia benefited from these money transfers, as did Iran, China, and Myanmar, notwithstanding the authoritarian consolidation of these regimes. Kennedy's op-ed sparked a debate about the lack of transparency in the use of crisis resources and led to the adoption in the United States of the ‘Russia and Belarus SDR Exchange Prohibition Act’, which bans currency transactions with these countries through the IMF, following the imposition of 2,500 sanctions by the US Treasury since February 2022. The op-ed also reignited a decades-old debate over whether international organisations such as the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation (WTO) should be held accountable for supporting authoritarian and corrupt governments or interfering in the politics of sovereign nations.
民主、独裁和全球经济治理
在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰四周后,美国参议员约翰-肯尼迪指责拜登政府在普京准备发动战争时间接向莫斯科提供了超过170亿美元的资金。2021 年 8 月,国际货币基金组织确实批准了历史性的 6500 亿美元特别提款权拨款,以帮助成员国应对科维德危机。俄罗斯从这些资金转移中受益,伊朗、中国和缅甸也是如此,尽管这些国家的专制政权正在巩固。肯尼迪的署名文章引发了一场关于危机资源使用缺乏透明度的辩论,并导致美国通过了《禁止俄罗斯和白俄罗斯特别提款权兑换法》,禁止通过国际货币基金组织与这些国家进行货币交易,而美国财政部自2022年2月以来已对这些国家实施了2500次制裁。这篇署名文章还再次引发了一场持续数十年的争论,即国际货币基金组织、世界银行和世界贸易组织(WTO)等国际组织是否应为支持专制和腐败政府或干涉主权国家政治负责。
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期刊介绍: Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short time span, the journal achieves both range and depth in its coverage. It is open to all forms of historical inquiry - including cultural, economic, international, political and social approaches - and welcomes comparative analysis. One issue per year explores a broad theme under the guidance of a guest editor. The journal regularly features contributions from scholars outside the Anglophone community and acts as a channel of communication between European historians throughout the continent and beyond it.
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