The political economy of global security
Subtitle: war, future crises and changes in global governance
By: Heikki Patomäki.
Series: Rethinking globalizations -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415416726; 9780203937464
Subjects: War; Security, International; International relations -- Forecasting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Global security : learning from possible futures; title: Explaining the First World War : learning from classical theories of imperialism; title: The origins of the First World War : using historical counterfactuals in constructing open-system explanations; title: The long downward wave of the world economy in the late 20th century : towards a return of the past?; title: Global insecurity in the early 21st century : neoliberalisation and the rise of new imperialism; title: Possible futures A : the logic of violence and war returns to the core areas of global political economy; title: Possible futures B and C : wars, crises and peaceful transformations of global governance; title: Conclusions : is the future of global security a tragedy, farce, or comedy?; title: Appendix 1: How to analyse and help to solve global collective dilemmas; title: Appendix 2: Layers of agency, structures and geo-historical nodal points that explain the First World War.