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Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)
"The international environment of the new millennium marks a significant departure from the international system of the post-World-War II (WWII) period. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States became the most powerful and influential state in the international system. As China's political, military, and economic influences in the international system continue to grow, the likelihood of a return to multi-polarity, with a security and affluence peer to the United States, is not an unreasonable prediction. Current popular opinion suggests that the United States and China are adamantly opposing forces in the international system. Therefore, creating a framework to base an understanding of the current relationship between two like states is valuable for informing subsequent actions, whereby the instruments of national power are employed to balance the elements of mutual security and mutual affluence, and limit negative influences from external factors, to achieve sustained stability. This study uses two historical examples, Japan and the European Union following WWII, to demonstrate how the United States successfully paired security and affluence elements of the DIME-FIL model, which reduced the negative influences of external factors and created sustained stability. The case studies offer key insights and perspectives for considering how like states can achieve stability. Those insights and perspectives are then used to analyze the relationship between the United States and China, and propose options designed to reduce the likelihood of the two states approaching the threshold of war. Counter to predominant thought, the research suggests that security and affluence parity is not a requirement for stability. Further, in the absence of mutual security, an overcompensating degree of mutual affluence between states can empower stability. The importance of external factors in building this relationship cannot be underemphasized. The research suggests external factors can create a destabilizing force that must be countered through deliberate employment of the instruments of national power. Creating stability between the United States and China will involve a give-and-take mentality, whereby affluence takes precedence over security, and cooperation takes precedence over national objectives."--pages v-vi.
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.