Military
globalization is defined by
David Held as "the process which embodies the growing extensity and intensity of military relations among the political units of the
world-system. Understood as such, it reflects both the expanding network of worldwide military ties and relations, as well as the impact of
key military technological innovations (from
steamships to
satellites), which over time, have reconstituted the world into a single
geostrategic space".[1]
For
Robert Keohane and
Joseph Nye, military globalization entails 'long-distance networks of interdependence in which force, and the threat or promise of force, are employed".[2]
Held divides the military globalization into three distinct phenomena:
The globalization of the war system. This refers to the "
geopolitical order,
great power rivalry, conflict and security relations".
The global system of
arms production and transfers, reflected in the global arms dynamics.
The geo-governance of violence, "embracing the formal and informal international regulation of the acquisition, deployment and use of military force".[3]
All three processes above "are connected to technological development, which made them possible in the first place. The result is increasing global interdependence and complexity".[4]
^David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt & Jonathan Perraton. (1999). Global Transformations; Politics, Economics and Culture, Cambridge Polity Press, p 88.
^Robert Keohane & Joseph Nye. (2002). Power and Interdependence, Boston: Little, Brown and Co, p 196.