ABSTRACT
The management of the twin crises ushers a drastic change in the modality of state power. There has been a departure from the there is no alternative (TINA) dogma and the restrictions it imposes on state capacities and actions. TINA is abruptly displaced by a whatever it takes (WIT) state whose intervening capacity is, apparently, limitless. While being opposite modalities of power, TINA and WIT are dialectically intertwined. First, WIT jettisons TINA only in order to save it; the WIT state is the TINA state in crisis-combating mode. And, second, both TINA and WIT denote government without political decision, will or desire; they are modalities of government by compulsion.
