INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

International Security and Globalization

ABSTRACT

The 21st century starts with diverting the attentions of the world's states, organizational partnerships and international implementation of the main threats to international peace and security. Unlike in the past, today's profound qualitative advances in all walks of life become manifest in the life span of a single generation. With the intensifying dynamics of technical, scientific, economic and social developments the potential of change is so immense that every state needs to pay undivided attention to an analysis of these evolutional tendencies, particularly in the field of defense and national security.

International Security and Globalization

Introduction

According to the principle of Justice, it is said that, "In a globalized world, security can no longer be thought of as a zero-sum game involving states alone. Global security is a pentagon of human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and global security and the security of any one state or culture cannot, therefore, be achieved without good governance (domestic and global) that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures."

Globalization tends to have a greater impact on the international security. There are a number of ways in which globalization can be viewed as impacting on international security - in terms of the range of actors involved in security, the economic origins of conflict, the means by which conflicts arc pursued, and the particular geographical location or conflicts. This is base upon the argument that ramifications of globalization can only be fully understood by defining it as the de-territorializing of social space, which carries significant qualitative implications for the maintenance of state sovereignty and capacity in dealing with the changing quality and quantity of flow of economic forces across borders.

Globalization defined in this way has significant implications for the primacy or the state as the referent object and denier/supplier of security in the modern period. States subject to the impact of globalization and the penetration of their civil societies have experienced increasing difficulty in conflating their own security with that of internal groupings, thereby expanding the range of referent objects of security. Similarly, states tinder conditions of globalization have faced increasing rivalry from, and been forced to cede a number of their security functions to, non-state actors. As the modern sovereign state system retreats under pressure from globalization, so there are signs of the re-emergence of privatized forms of violence.

Thesis Statement

Globalization has played a significant role in the international security apparatus. This study of security and globalization as it pertains to terrorism will show how and why international security must evolve to combat terror and why the international security protocol is not capable of recognizing new threats that transcend national borders.

History and Background

The international security situation has significantly changed since the end of the Cold War and the bipolar division of the world. The fundamental changes in the international security environment have brought, besides a lot of positives, also a number of deformations, which have gradually started to assume the form of various asymmetric security ...