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'''Military [[Social:Globalization|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|world-system]]. Understood as such, it reflects both the expanding network of worldwide military ties and relations, as well as the impact of [[Engineering:History of military technology|key military technological innovations]] (from [[Engineering:Steamship|steamship]]s to [[Astronomy:Satellite|satellite]]s), which over time, have reconstituted the world into a single geostrategic space".<ref name=held>David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt & Jonathan Perraton. (1999). ''Global Transformations; Politics, Economics and Culture'', Cambridge Polity Press, p 88.</ref>
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".<ref>Robert Keohane & Joseph Nye. (2002). ''Power and Interdependence'', Boston: Little, Brown and Co, p 196.</ref>

Held divides the military globalization into three distinct phenomena: 

#The globalization of the war system. This refers to the "[[Earth:Geopolitics|geopolitical]] order, [[Social:Great power|great power]] rivalry, conflict and security relations".
#The global system of [[Engineering:Arms industry|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".<ref>''Global Transformations'', p 89.</ref> 

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".<ref>Armin Krishnan. (2008). ''Wars as Business: Technological Change and Military Service Contracting'', London & New York: Routledge, p 158.</ref>

The process of military globalization starts with the [[Age of Discovery]], when the European colonial empires began military operations on the global scale. Their "imperial rivalry led to the First World War, which was the first [[Social:World war|global conflict]] in world history".<ref>''Wars as Business'', p 158.</ref><ref>Max Ostrovsky, (2018). ''Military Globalization: Geography, Strategy, Weaponry'', (New York: Edwin Mellen Press), p I-II, https://archive.org/details/military-globalization/mode/2up</ref> Keohane dates military globalization at least from the time of the conquests of Alexander the Great.<ref>Robert Keohane. (2002). ''Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World'', London & New York: Routledge, p 195.</ref>

==See also== 
* International relations
* [[Social:World government|World government]]
* [[Social:World war|World war]]
* [[Social:World War III|World War III]]
* [[Philosophy:Criticisms of globalization|Criticisms of globalization]]

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