The Relationship between Globalization and Militarism

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 18-23

Abstract

The author contends that globalization encourages the means to wage war by protecting & promoting the military industries essential to make arms therefore promoting unrest, inequality, conflict, & war. The threat of military force is used to protect the investments of transnational corporations. National economic policies are pushed toward military spending as the world economic system promotes military economies over civilian economies. The author cites examples of this involving the World Trade Organization (WTO) & the General Agreement of Tariffs & Trade (GATT). As the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman put it: "the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.". 5 References. E. Sanchez