The Transnational and Geopolitical Reasoning behind. The IMF’s Gas Tax in Ukraine
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2025-06-23
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The IMF has since the crisis of 2008 demanded of Ukraine that natural gas be taxed to the point that domestic prices within Ukraine reach international market levels in a way that is unusual for the Fund. This thesis triangulates data from IMF reports and secondary sources to create an explanatory narrative that argues that this policy is derived from an ideological alliance of the managers at the IMF with US and transnational capital, to whom the IMF functions as a Transnational Managerial Class, to transnationalise the Ukrainian state and introduce transnational FDI. As a secondary hypothesis the idea of the IMF as an geopolitical battlefield primarily acted upon by US capital and the US state, independent of other more geopolitically conservative NATO states, to isolate Chinese FDI from weapon and energy export alternatives is presented as an explanation for the incoherence of NATO policy towards the IMF’s goal of transnationalisation of the Ukrainian state.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen