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lyu07282today at 7:20 PM0 repliesview on HN

It has more terms as well: neoliberal encasement, depoliticization or post-politics, it's designing a system in such a way as to protect private property, international trade and other economic orthodoxy from democratic influence. That is an incredibly potent theory to understand the EU by. Lots of work in academia on the subject as well, for instance:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129546

https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberal-encasement-infrastruc...