1) Bibliographic data
Nye, Joseph S., Jr. (2001) “Military Deglobalization? Long-Distance
Military Interdependence is Taking New Forms.” Foreign Policy, N.122,
Jan./Feb.:82-3.
2) Question(s) addressed by the author and working arguments
Could social globalization be leading to some revival of military globalization?
When our people says that our era is dominated by rapid globalization,
they are quick to cite the usual evidence: trillions of dollars flow
daily across borders, transnational industrial production chains, and
the advent of cheap, instantaneous communication over the internet. But
in military terms, is this an era of deglobalization. With so much focus
on economic globalization we sometimes forget that there are other forms
of interdependence –ecological, social, cultural, military- that
do not always vary in the same way.
Economic globalization is not everything. With the rise of social globalization,
humanitarian concerns interacting with global communications have dramatized
some conflicts and spurred military interventions in places like Somalia,
Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor. Unipolarity is also misleading in that
is solely on the balance of power among states. Weak states can follow
asymmetric strategies of supporting terrorists or manipulating transnational
interdependencies to counter U.S. power.
3) Conceptual references to transnational-transnationalism
Transnationalized,
transnational interests.
4) Conclusions or Final Remarks
Geogovernance of military globalization still lags far behind the dynamic
changes in the technologies of destruction and the increasing roles of
transnational actors.
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