Book contents
- States of Transition
- Reviews
- States of Transition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theorising the State and Transitions
- 3 The Entrepreneurial State
- 4 The Industrial State
- 5 The Military State
- 6 The Democratic State
- 7 The Welfare State
- 8 The Global State
- 9 Reimagining the State
- Notes
- References
- Index
5 - The Military State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2025
Book contents
- States of Transition
- Reviews
- States of Transition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theorising the State and Transitions
- 3 The Entrepreneurial State
- 4 The Industrial State
- 5 The Military State
- 6 The Democratic State
- 7 The Welfare State
- 8 The Global State
- 9 Reimagining the State
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The relationship between states and their militaries has long been a subject of social enquiry. Most nation-states have their origins in war, formed and reformed by external conflict and civil wars. Yet the military aspects of state power are intimately tied to all other aspects of state power in relation to its industrial, entrepreneurial and global dimensions. Having discussed the ways in which militaries shape and constrain transition pathways through innovation and their everyday conduct as well as the exercise of violence and war, the chapter explores potential to transform the military state arguing that at the heart of transforming the military state is the need to rethink security, possibly along the lines of ecological security. In conjunction with efforts to embed more ecological thinking in relation to security, a prerequisite for such a shift is a revisioning of the goal and purpose of the economy as proposed in Chapter 4, at least in richer countries in the first instance.
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- States of TransitionFrom Governing the Environment to Transforming Society, pp. 110 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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