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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2023
“The fracturing of the Western alliance over Iraq and the huge anti-war demonstrations around the world . . . are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.” Apparently factual, this statement should be seen rather as interpretive reconstruction. It framed these empirical events in a globally civil way. They are presented as transpiring on the public stage of the world, America is portrayed, not as an elect but as a particularistic nation, confronting not the evil of an Iraqi dictator but the world as a civil, rationally-organized society: “President Bush appears to be eyeball to eyeball with a tenacious new adversary: millions of people who flooded the streets of New York and dozens of world cities to say they are against war based on the evidence at hand.”
—Jeffrey C. AlexanderThere’s a certain pride you take in the wealth of experience. That’s kind of nice. That you belong all over the world rather than a little part. You’re proud of the world, not just proud of your neighborhood. Proud to be part of it. It’s not like you’re saying, “Go Bronx.” It’s “Go World.”
—Esther DysonIntroduction
Globalization involves a myriad of transnational processes which although are global in their scope but are distinct from one another. Through these processes, globalization generates systemic forces that affect all states. While it is beyond the scope of this study to address each process and issue in detail, we shall delve into some of those that are most pertinent to the complexity of international security in the contemporary world. This chapter examines military, economic, health, information technology, and cultural components of human security, as they interact with terrorism, all through the prism of globalization. While many students of international security consider globalization itself as one of the elements of security, it occupies a unique position among these other security components not only because of its ability to overshadow them but because of its impact on their dynamics and its capacity even to enslave (each one of) them as mere expressions of its own processes.
In today’s world, making a distinction between national and international security is like drawing a line in the water. Both conflict and peace have become borderless just as stability and instability have.
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