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

In: Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis

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  • Edward A. Kolodziej

    (University of Illinois)

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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.

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  • Edward A. Kolodziej, 1987. "Whither Modernisation and Militarisation? Implications for International Security and Arms Control," International Economic Association Series, in: Christian Schmidt & Frank Blackaby (ed.), Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis, chapter 10, pages 206-232, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-18898-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18898-7_10
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