Globalisation and Security

Question 1

What is the view of security and economics in a realist view?

Answer 1

• military power projection is contingent on economic circumstance
• personal well being is dependent on economic circumstance
• for realism they are inextricably linked

Question 2

what is the liberal view of security and economics?

Answer 2

• citizenship should be limited to conditions of universal hospitality
• Greater optimism on role of economics in international society
• security is dependent on how a state is organised domestically

Question 3

why do kant and liberals see it as important to be republican?

Answer 3

• if states are republican they believe in world citizenship and respect international law

Question 4

what did Adam Smith argue about colonialism and economics in wealth of nations?

Answer 4

• beneficial for both parties
• economics isolated from normal politics and individual social relations (may result in conflict and insecurity which is natural and normal)

Question 5

What does contemporary neoliberalism believe?

Answer 5

• government intervention in the domestic economy is wrong

- efficiency of market competition

Question 6

what is the state role in neoliberal view?

Answer 6

• not the main actor, other institutions like IMF and WTO are.
• economic peace through interdependence

Question 7

what is the liberal view of economic interdependence?

Answer 7

• conflict is less likely,

Question 8

what is the realist view of economic interdependence?

Answer 8

• doesn’t decrease the prospect of war, increased interdependence can be seen as mutual vulnerability, provides incentive for war

Question 9

what is a mixed realist and liberal view of economics?

Answer 9

• two or more states may foster peace in so far as they can expect trade levels to stay high for the forseeable future
• interdpendence between two or more states can cause uncertainty if trade expectations are low

Question 10

what does susan strange say about globalisation?

Answer 10

• “globalisation is the worst of all the vague and wooly worlds” it refers to anything from the internet to hamburger

Question 11

how could you see globalisation as a new security threat?

Answer 11

• increases rich and poor gap
• only serves elite interests
• desperation it can bring to societal and global insecurity like Greece 2010 or Egypt 2011