The Political Economy of Global Security: War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance

by PatomSki; Heikki

• ISBN13: 9780415416726
• ISBN10: 0415416728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the twenty-first century?

Author Biography

Heikki Patomaki is Professor of International Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland, as well as Research Professor of Globalisation and Global Institutions at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Tables and figures	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Global security: learning from possible futures	p. 17
Explaining the First World War: learning from classical theories of imperialism	p. 36
The origins of the First World War: using historical counterfactuals in constructing open-system explanations	p. 59
The long downward wave of the world economy in the late twentieth century: towards a return of the past?	p. 100
Global insecurity in the early twenty-first century: neoliberalisation and the rise of new imperialism	p. 124
Possible futures A: the logic of violence and war returns to the core areas of global political economy	p. 156
Possible futures B and C: wars, crises and peaceful transformations of global governance	p. 182
Conclusions: is the future of global security a tragedy, farce, or comedy?	p. 216
How to analyse and help solve global collective dilemmas	p. 225
Layers of agency, structures and geo-historical nodal points that explain the First World War	p. 232
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 287
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