The political economy of global security : war, future crises and changes in global governance / Heikki Patomäki.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-285) and index.

Introduction -- Global security : learning from possible futures -- Explaining the First World War : learning from classical theories of imperialism -- The origins of the First World War : using historical counterfactuals in constructing open-system explanations -- The long downward wave of the world economy in the late twentieth century : towards a return of the past? -- Global insecurity in the early twenty-first century : neoliberalisation and the rise of new imperialism -- Possible futures A : the logic of violence and war returns to the core areas of global political economy -- Possible futures B and C : wars, crises and peaceful transformations of global governance -- Conclusions : is the future of global security a tragedy, farce, or comedy? -- Appendix 1: How to analyse and help to solve global collective dilemmas -- Appendix 2: Layers of agency, structures and geo-historical nodal points that explain the First World War.