ABSTRACT
If war seems to be changing its identity with the ending of the great East-West divide, it is because the global game has changed profoundly. We are shifting from a system largely governed and regulated by states to a global social system in which there is no longer a frontier between internal and external. This observation is true for states that have lost an enemy, for companies that have to face up to market globalization, and for individuals who can no longer escape the process of globalization. But the creation and organization of a global social system seems a long way off. The economic and social forces of which it is composed are finding it difficult to settle down into a system. In other words, the multiple actors and issues in the world are connected in ways that are not always stable, identifiable, regular and complementary.1 Globalization of the social linkage is bringing about its deregulation.
