The political economy of global security : war, future crises and changes in global governance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patomäki, Heikki
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Rethinking globalizations ; 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Global security : learning from possible futures
  • Explaining the First World War : learning from classical theories of imperialism
  • The origins of the First World War : using historical counterfactuals in constructing open-system explanations
  • The long downward wave of the world economy in the late twentieth century : towards a return of the past?
  • Global insecurity in the early twenty-first century : neoliberalisation and the rise of new imperialism
  • Possible futures A : the logic of violence and war returns to the core areas of global political economy
  • Possible futures B and C : wars, crises and peaceful transformations of global governance
  • Conclusions : is the future of global security a tragedy, farce, or comedy?
  • Appendix 1: How to analyse and help to solve global collective dilemmas
  • Appendix 2: Layers of agency, structures and geo-historical nodal points that explain the First World War.