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.
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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