After 2000, with an increasingly dense network, Atlas restructured its international operations to create regional sub-networks. Regional networks were an attempt to deal with the difficult question of local inscription. They proved effective in facilitating collaboration, fostering synergies among local institutes, and “hooking” new contacts to the cause. … In the late 2000s, a few successful think tanks were upgraded as Atlas “satellites” to act as regional gatekeepers and relays. The idea was to push some of Atlas’s discovery, organizing, and training operations downstream.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 581