Neoliberal Geopolitics PDF
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Figure 1: Barnett’s “Core” and “Gap.” Redrawn from maps in Barnett (2003).
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Endnotes
1
Thanks to John O’Loughlin for drawing our attention to Barnett’s writings.
2
We therefore fully concur with Wendy Larner’s (forthcoming) argument that it is
important to examine the ways in which neoliberal ideology has been differentially
articulated with various other political projects, such as neoconservativism and the so-
called Third Way. The articulation we are charting here with a still-developing form of
American empire is just one of many possible rearticulations of neoliberalism, all of
which call out for closer, contextualized study.
3
See Salit (2003): “He’s getting noticed, but not everyone appreciates Barnett’s pre-
sentations. His detractors, some of whom stand up and walk out on his talks, say “he’s
an inch deep and a mile wide.” He admits that he’s not a true specialist or an analyst.
He’s more of a futurist.” See also the letter to the editor of Esquire by Barnett’s US
Navy War College colleague, P H Liotta (2003).
4
They also contain variations on many themes found in the publications and speeches
of the members of George W Bush’s security team (including Wolfowitz, Condoleeza
Rice, Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle), as well as in the products of a suite of like-minded
“experts” and “analysts,” such as William Kristol and Robert Kagan, affiliated with
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institutions such as the Project for a New American Century, the American Enterprise
Institute, and so on.
5
For example, the first New Rule Sets Project workshop (or “decision event”), on
1 May 2000, had participants from: (foreign policy) National Security Council, US AID,
National Intelligence Council; (military) Under-Secretary of the Navy, US Naval War
College, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, US Pacific Command; (financial) Cantor
Fitzgerald, eSpeed, Poten and Partners, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, NY Mercantile
Exchange, Sino-American Development Corporation; (energy) US Dept of Energy,
Caithness Energy Corp., Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and (research)
Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute
for International Economics, National Defense University, Columbia University,
University of Mississippi.
6
See also the critiques of Wendell Berry (2001), who has argued that “An economy
based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-
product. We need a peaceable economy.”
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