Abstract
This chapter describes four main security problems encountered worldwide and argues that one common root cause of these problems is the absence of a comprehensive global security system. The foundation of this study is the hypothesis that the nation state, one of the most powerful macro-sociological structures that human beings have formed, can be interpreted as a tentative security system which is only partially effective. Its very effectiveness points to ways to overcome its failures by a radical change of perspective.
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© 1994 Manas Chatterji, Henk Jager and Annemarie Rima
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Terhal, P.H.J.J. (1994). Comprehensive Global Security: A Copernican Reversal. In: Chatterji, M., Jager, H., Rima, A. (eds) The Economics of International Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23695-4_12
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