Political Economy of Global Security
von: Heikki Patomäki
Routledge, 2008
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Sprache: Englisch
312 Seiten, Download: 4782 KB
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| Copyright | 5 | ||
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Figures and tables | 8 | ||
| Foreword | 9 | ||
| Preface | 14 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 19 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 21 | ||
| 2 Global security: Learning from possible futures | 37 | ||
| 3 Explaining the First World War: Learning from classical theories of imperialism | 56 | ||
| 4 The origins of the First World War: Using historical counterfactuals in constructing open-system explanations | 79 | ||
| 5 The long downward wave of the world economy in the late twentieth century: Towards a return of the past? | 120 | ||
| 6 Global insecurity in the early twenty-first century: Neoliberalisation and the rise of new imperialism | 144 | ||
| 7 Possible futures A: The logic of violence and war returns to the core areas of global political economy | 176 | ||
| 8 Possible futures B and C: Wars, crises and peaceful transformations of global governance | 202 | ||
| 9 Conclusions: Is the future of global security a tragedy, farce, or comedy? | 236 | ||
| Appendix 1: How to analyse and help solve global collective dilemmas | 245 | ||
| Appendix 2: Layers of agency, structures and geo-historical nodal points that explain the First World War | 252 | ||
| Notes | 261 | ||
| Bibliography | 287 | ||
| Index | 307 |