Abstract
Neoliberalism, taken to indicate social practices that enact multiple extensions of market logics, may be presumed to signal a kind of anti-or post-geopolitics. After all, the most famous adjective to describe the desired global space of neoliberalism is ‘flat’ (Friedman 2005; Ohmae 1991). The flatness indicates the eroded significance of national boundaries and of differences of most sorts between people and places across the planet (Brown 2006: 699). Geopolitics, by contrast, relies on a world whose surface is not flat. It is, rather, a world exhaustively divided into differentiated territorial states. Moreover, geopolitics understands each state as having its own interests and as pursuing these with force when and where it is expedient.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Neoliberalism |
Pages | 433-443 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317549666 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 7 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences