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Vennesson, Pascal. "Military Power in a Globalizing International System: The Politics of Military Adaptation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p179711_index.html>

Vennesson, P. , 2007-02-28 "Military Power in a Globalizing International System: The Politics of Military Adaptation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p179711_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Over the years, the greater economic, social, and technological interconnectedness of the international system has transformed social trends and national policies. These interaction dynamics have also seemingly changed security. Why, and how, does this greater interconnectedness of the international system shape strategy, i.e. policy-makers? conception of how to employ military force? Analysts usually associate globalization with broad conceptions of security and new security issues, like the environment or migration, and tend to neglect military power. Today , however, military power cannot be adequately understood without taking into account the interaction capacity of the international system. Some strategists acknowledge that this greater interaction capacity leads to a decline of the utility of force. Others, however, see new, unsettling, opportunities for using force. Why do globalizing dynamics lead to less war-prone military doctrines in some cases, and more war-prone military doctrines in others? I argue that the impact of globalization on strategy is likely to depend on military adaptation. Borrowing from James Rosenau?s attempt to schematize political adaptation, I show that strategists can adapt to globalization in four different ways: (1) strategists can accommodate the demands of globalization on the military?s core competency, and redefine the armed forces? roles and missions; (2) strategists can refuse to accommodate, and attempt to shape globalization instead; (3) strategists can define a new desired equilibrium between military power?s functional imperative and globalization; (4), or strategists can allow the existing balance to prevail. The goal of the paper is to identify and comprehend the varied responses of strategists in the U.S. and in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, the U.K.), in the different services (armies, navies, air forces, as well as other branches like the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard in the U.S. or the Carabinieri in Italy, for example) to the increasing demands of globalization on military power. To explain why and how strategists cope with globalization as a challenge to military power, I focus both on globalization-induced stresses and strains, and on policy-makers? efforts to adapt to them. Specifically, I examine their beliefs about how military forces should be structured and employed to respond to recognized threats and opportunities. I ask if, and to what extent, they think in terms of the potential impact of globalization when they plan for the employment of military power. The following questions guide my empirical inquiry: Are strategists aware of globalization dynamics, and do they worry about their consequences on strategy? If so, how do they define and conceptualize globalization? Do they take it into account when they design military doctrine? If so, do they scale down their tactical, operational and strategic ambitions, or do they innovate to take advantage of it? Overall, I argue that the greater interaction capacity of the international system is a neglected systemic non-military factor that can affect conceptions of force employment. It shakes common beliefs regarding the use of force, and reshapes norms about warfare.

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