Export Development Canada, Capital and Political Risk: From a keynesian to a neoliberal regime of spatial production

This thesis interrogates the dynamics of imperialism in an age of neoliberal capital. It examines how the calculation of political risk has emerged as a technology of governance used to produce the space of the global economy as a new site of accumulation and governance. It illuminates this process through an examination of the different deployments of political risk by the export credit agency Export Development Canada during keynesian and neoliberal periods. In particular, it seeks to answer the following questions: first, how has the calculation of political risk emerged as a technology of power the EDC has used to produce the space of the global economy in the form of the emerging market? Second, how has this discursive production of the emerging market allowed capital to be connected to new regimes of governance based on the mitigation of political risk?...