Neoliberalism, globalization and americanism: the strategies of multilateral financing organisms

Abstract

This paper attempts to describe part of a discussion on the strategies of expansion and legitimization of the interests of the USA, with the advent of the World Bank and of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as multilateral financing institutions from the post Second World War period. Such institutions were initially created to provide structuring support to the practices of international commerce and were based on the premises that each country would be able to commercialize with the others in symmetrical conditions. The present discussion intends to test the hypothesis that such multilateral institutions are, in fact, instrumentalized as financing organisms to act politically, as “mobile action fronts”, in the strategies of dissemination of the Americanism culture. This is one of the hypotheses put forward to explain the reason why the American dollar has become the world currency, thus enabling the expansion and mundialization of corporate interests of capitals and of the North American State.