ABSTRACT
The best-known criticisms of the Davos culture-and the ascendancy of the so-called Davos man-are reactions to this image. Transnational antiglobalizers, or social justice advocates, condemn Davos as both an insidious and defective site. The menu on offer is simply a variant of orthodox neoliberalism with a rigid focus on getting incentives right in the marketplace, with the inevitability of differentiated outcomes between winners and losers. Defenders of nationalism-and national interests-bemoan the “stateless” attributes of Davos. The stalwart of this latter camp continues to be the Harvard University professor Samuel Huntington, who wrote that the homogeneous ethos of Davos (or more accurately, “Davos culture”) stripped away territorial loyalties at the elite level without an appreciation of the array of cultural differentiation at the mass level.1
