Whither Modernisation and Militarisation? Implications for International Security and Arms Control

Edward A. Kolodziej
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Edward A. Kolodziej: University of Illinois

Chapter 10 in Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis, 1987, pp 206-232 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Modernisation and militarisation are closely associated. Militarisation responds to the imperatives arising from the global modernising process begun five centuries ago with the rise of the territorial state and with the destruction of the European feudalism and its gradual replacement by capitalist-based economy.1 To establish this association — and the direct and indirect causal connection between them — the discussion below first defines the principal characteristics of modernisation as a global process of socio-economic change and political transformation and defines militarisation in terms that can be linked to key characteristics of modernisation. Some of the implications of this argument for global arms control accords are subsequently outlined in the concluding section. Aims of modernisation will have to be redirected and the means used by the world community in this pursuit will have to be redefined if militarisation is to remain the servant, not master, of modernisation.

Keywords: Military Expenditure; World Community; Modernisation Process; Global Order; Collective Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18898-7_10

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