The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization's Shadow

by Devetak; Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415425346
• ISBN10: 0415425344
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-02-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The events of the 11 th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world?s population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated anything, it is that globalization can as readily facilitate violence and insecurity as it can produce stability, prosperity and political order. This edited volume offers important new methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political violence. It brings together studies from various disciplines in order to address the precise nature of the relationship between globalization and political violence as it seeks to offer new theoretical and empirical understandings of the types of actors involved in political violence, either as perpetrators or victims. Examples of the studies include the changing character of state militaries and state-to-stateconflict under globalization, the emergence of ?new wars? fuelled by globalization, the role of state militaries in intervention, new forms of violence directed by states against refugees and anti-globalization protesters, the role of terrorist actors post-9/11, networks for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the rise of private military firms amongst others. The Globalization of Political Violence will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations, security studies and international political economy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xiii
Globalization's shadow	p. 1
Globalization and military force(s)	p. 27
Cosmopolitanism and military intervention	p. 46
Globalization and political violence	p. 67
International legal responses to weapons proliferation	p. 86
The globalization of violence against refugees	p. 106
Old violences, new challenges	p. 131
The state, its failure and external intervention in Africa	p. 144
Post-conflict recovery	p. 166
Antipodal terrorists?	p. 181
'Viva nihilism!'	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 282
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