1st Edition

Globalization and National Security

By Jonathan Kirshner Copyright 2006
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, top scholars of international relations assess the consequences of globalization for national security, identifying three distinct ‘processes’ of globalization - the intensification of economic exchange, the flow of information, and marketization (the expansion of the set of social relations governed by market forces)-exploring how they can affect the capacity and power of states as... Read more
1. Globalization and National Security  2. International Migration in a Globalizing World: Assessing Impacts on National Security  3. New Media for a New World? Information Technology and Threats to National Security  4. The Marketization of Security: Adventurous Defense, Institutional Malformation, and Conflict  5. The Paradox of Liberal Hegemony: Globalization and U. National Secuirty  6. Globalization and Arab Security  7. Globalization and National Security After Empire: The Former Soviet Space  8. Divided Continent: Globalization and Europe's Fragmented Security Response  9. Globalization and National Security: Is Japan Still an Island?  10. Globalization, Power and Prosepct

Biography

Jonathan Kirshner is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is currently a Visiting Professor for the 05-06 academic year at Princeton University. In addition, he is the director of the International Political Economy program at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. He is the co-editor of Cornell University Press series' Cornell Studies in Money.