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Globalization has been the source of many controversies in contemporary thinking about international relations, in terms of its reality, its content and its potential impacts. Although these debates have mainly been confined to the study of global political economy, there has been an increasing analysis of globalization in terms of its impacts on national and international security. The present study was borne of some dissatisfaction with recent accounts of the relationship between globalization and security, finding limitations in terms of narrowly conceived notions of globalization, and narrowly conceived notions of state power, emanating from all sides of the debates.
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See, for example, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror (New York: Random House, 2003);
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For example, Martin Albrow, The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 1996).
Some important examples include: Ersel Aydinli and James N. Rosenau (eds), Globalization, Security, and the Nation State: Paradigms in Transition (New York: State University of New York Press, 2005);
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For good examples, see Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis (eds), Understanding Civil Wars: Evidence and Analysis vols 1 and 2 (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2005);
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For example, see Charlotte Bretherton, ‘Security after the Cold War: Towards a Global Paradigm?’, in Charlotte Bretherton and Geoffrey Ponton (eds), Global Politics: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), 126–51. Cf. Aydinli and Rosenau, Globalization, Security, and the Nation State;
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However, see Tarak Barkawi, Globalization and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). The following works also attempt to put security (or military power) in the broader discussion of globalization: Ian Clark, Globalization and International Relations Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), ch. 6; and David Held et al., Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (Cambridge: Polity, 1999), ch. 2.
A longer version of this critique is developed by Shaw; see Martin Shaw, ‘The Contemporary Mode of Warfare? Mary Kaldor’s Theory of New Wars’, Review of International Political Economy Vol. 7, No. 1 (2000): 171–92;
and Martin Shaw, The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq (Cambridge: Polity, 2005).
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and Randall Germain, ‘Globalisation in Historical Perspective’, in Randall Germain (ed.), Globalisation and Its Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999), 67–90.
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For example, Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (London: HarperCollins, 1994).
Compare Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
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Mabee, B. (2009). Introduction: The Globalization of Security?. In: The Globalization of Security. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234123_1
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