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NEW GLOBAL STUDIES
Volume 15, Issue 2-3, Pages 165-180Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2021-0006
Keywords
security; entanglement; Cold War; decolonization; migration; transnationalism
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The essay argues for shifting from a national to an entangled global perspective on security, discussing how the concept of globality can inform our understanding of transnational security dynamics. The theorization of security entanglement as a particular form of globality allows for a rethinking of the post-1945 security environment and events within it.
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.
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