1GEOG 4712 Political GeographyLecture 11: Whatever Happened to Globalization?outline1) After ʻempireʼ?2) Geostrategic claims3) American endgame4) Globalization prelude5) Geopolitical codes6) Doktor Barnett…7) …His prescriptions…8) …and critics9) Neoliberal geopolitics10) New Imperialism2Geostrategic lexiconEndgame?Moments in US Global Expansion1) 1898-1918• Paternalistic ʻMonroe Doctrine as doctrine of the free worldʼ• Economic power divorced from territorial control?2) 1941-1945• ‘New American Century’ that ‘goes beyond geographyʼ• How to organize UN/Bretton Woods along ideological lines?3) 1989/91-2001/03?• Mid-East Interests: oil, Israel, former colonial interests (UK,France)• Will ʻMiddle Easternʼ globalism emerge?3Prelude to GlobalizationHow to come to terms with diverse (de/re)-territorializationsand re-scalings of economic processes governing ordominating the global system?Geopolitical codes, redux?4Barnettʼs crystal balls1) Disconnect defines danger2) Where and why has globalization taken root?Barnettʼs prescriptions1) Shrink vs. mind ʻthe gapʼ2) Consider the ʻsecurity ruleʼ3) Plug the ʻleaky containerʼ4) Integrate and avoid ʻforced reconnectionʼ5) Join ʻus/USʼ and prosper: ʻenlightened globalizationʼ5Barnettʼs critics1) Language: techno-jargon + ʻsys-adminʼ hyper-babble2) Terminology: ʻglobalizationʼ?3) Spatiality: binary but with ʻ seamsʼ4) Philosophy: American security is good for you5) Legality: ʻRule-setsʼ + double standards6) Geo-graphy: flat, Cartesian, contiguous7) Masculinity: seminal, strategic gaze8) History: connection vs. containment9) Connectivity: network integration vs. bloody failure10) Simplicity: “And then thereʼs AIDS” ?!?Neoliberalism vs. neoconservatismʻneoconservatives have now“Neoconservatives have now ripped away fromglobalization the veil under which neoliberals hid thenew imperialism.”(R. Rubin, 2004: The Guardian)which neoliberals hid the new imperialismʼ”governmentality.6Neoliberal Geopolitics (Roberts, Secor, Sparke)1) Definition:geopolitical vision connected to ideas of liberal idealism,free markets, openness, global economic integration …and linked to an extreme American unilateralism2) Aim:highlight how neoliberal geopolitics of war plannersillustrate contradictory dependency on enforced re-regulation + regime change3) Architecture:structural adjustment policies, fiscal austerity measures,military intervention and occupationʻNewʼ Imperialism?7Conclusions1) Multiple imperialisms possible2) Variable hegemonies still contested3) Personal securities and liberties re-scaled4) Spatial fixes and economic crises demandgeographic approaches5) Globalization is geographic6) Thomas Barnett = Chief
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