ABSTRACT
Armed with their simple master narrative about the inexorable force of economic globalization, neoliberals famously hold that the global extension of free-market reforms will ultimately bring worldwide peace and prosperity. Observers and critics of neoliberalism as an emergent system of global hegemony, however, insist on noting the many ways in which states actively foster the conditions for global integration, directly or through international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. In the neoliberal approach, the geopolitics of interimperial rivalry, the Monroe doctrine, and the ideas about hemispheric control that defined Butler's era are eclipsed by a new global vision of almost infinite openness and interdependency. Barnett's neoliberal geopolitics is therefore ultimately calibrated to justify and promote the use of pre-emptive US military might across a huge swath of the globe.
