To Deceive and Conquer: How neoliberal UK and USA coercively mobilized the concept of freedom

Abstract

Drawing on ideas about neoliberalism, information society and globalisation, this critical review will focus on how countries such as the UK and USA employed neo-liberalism to mobilize the concept and idea of freedom to pursue policies of war, free markets and austerity. Thalos (2016) argues that the theory of freedom is a social construction, and that freedom is not just given to us, but rather a political concept and to understand freedom we must understand the constraints that are restricting people from being ‘free’.