Neoliberal Geopolitics https://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/neoliberalgeopolitics.pdf

This geopolitical world vision, we argue, is closely connected to neo- liberal idealism about the virtues of free markets, openness, and global economic integration. Yet, linked as it was to an extreme form of American unilateralism, we further want to highlight how the neoliberal geopolitics of the war planners illustrated the contradictory dependency of multilateral neoliberal deregulation on enforced re-regulation and,

in particular, on the deadly and far from multilateral re-regulation represented by the “regime change” that has now been enforced on Iraq.

Such re-regulation underlines the intellectual importance of studying how neoliberal marketization dynamics are hybridized and supplemented by various extraeconomic forces.2 Rather than making neoliberalism into a totalizing economic master narrative, we there- fore suggest that it is vital to examine its interarticulation with certain dangerous supplements, including, not least of all, the violence of American military force