Globality and Entangled Security: Rethinking the Post-1945 Order

Adamson Fiona B. () and Greenhill Kelly M. ()
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Adamson Fiona B.: Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, WC1H 0XG, UK
Greenhill Kelly M.: Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA

New Global Studies, 2021, vol. 15, issue 2-3, 165-180

Abstract: In this essay we argue for the utility of moving from a “national” to an “entangled global” perspective on security. Focusing on the post-1945 international context, we discuss how the concept of “globality” can inform and reframe our understanding of transnational security dynamics and help move us beyond traditional state-centric frameworks. Such a move enables a better understanding of historical events and contemporary security dynamics than classical “national security” frameworks alone. After outlining the rationale behind our call for expanding the aperture in the study of security, we theorize security entanglement as a particularly important form of globality with its own internal dynamics and show how the entanglement framework allows us to rethink the post-1945 security environment and events within it. We then focus on three illustrative forms of security entanglement that have been underexplored in security studies: the global nature of the Cold War; dynamics of decolonization and its legacies; and the relationship between migration and security. We conclude by discussing the implications of security entanglement for future visions of world security.

Keywords: security; entanglement; Cold War; decolonization; migration; transnationalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2021-0006

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