ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the geopolitical discourse as it frames the boundaries or a limit for what is intelligible to policy makers and the social and within which 'consensus-democracy' was conceived and established as hegemonic discourse. It illustrates how a particular elite of global-order-making within Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission produced a problematique, was a challenge to the hegemonic order throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter looks at the contours of the ruptures that these problematizations brought into life and give an account of what kind of learning was to be done for a transformation towards the neoliberal consensus. It shows how the transformation was relevant to thinking about international migration by briefly outlining the relevance of proxy wars in Indochina. These Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission, were vital in introducing a transformation of doctrine and providing a blueprint for how the governance of migration came to be thought up within the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC).
