Post-Westphalian global security : the strategic implications of applying nonviolent consent theory to the global war on terror

Abstract

In characterising 9/11 as a transformative moment in global security, IR realists have failed to contextualise such threats within the larger trends of global populism. The rising technological and temporal-spatial diminishment of globalisation has afforded militarised non-state networks (MNSNs), such as al-Qaeda, increasingly efficient means and modalities through which to exert influence. Yet it is important to note that rather than aberrations, such networks are the logical extrapolation of a broader global trajectory of eroding state-centric norms.