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Hyperconflict

globalization and insecurity

James H. Mittelman

Buch

englisch

Mittelman, James H. (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Stanford security studies

Stanford Security Studies

Stanford, Calif.

2010

XXIV, 256 p.

978-0-8047-6376-9

includes bibliographical references and index

security
international relations
world politics
1989-
conflict, international

Contents: Prelude -- Preliminary answers -- Coercive globalization -- Conflict 1: multilateral agreement on investment -- Conflict 2: Asian debacle -- Conflict 3: battles of Seattle (coauthored with Jacob Stump) -- Conflict 4: 9/11 and the "global war on terror" (coauthored with Priya Dixit) -- Postnational security.
Summary:
Mittelman (international affairs, American U.) investigates how globalization is connected to security or insecurity, and the implications of that connection for world order. Introducing the novel concept of hyperconflict, he argues that a novel pattern is forming as insecurity is being globalized, political violence reorganized, pervasive uncertainty marked by a rising climate of fear, and structures of armed and other conflict moving beyond the hands of governments and their agents. After reviewing coercive globalization, he looks in turn at conflicts involving the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Asia, Seattle, and 9/11. Then he considers post-national security. Stanford Security Studies is an imprint of Stanford University Press. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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