ABSTRACT
It is not just at the national but also the international level that the state and business are encountering the pressures of social and political upheaval, as well as varying degrees of economic change. Within the developed world, for those who have 'made it', a sense of security relies increasingly on the purchase of sophisticated alarm systems and the building of high, possibly electrified, fencing to warn off the hungry and socially and economically excluded. In this post-Cold War setting, then, the evolution of military and security strategy internationally is driven by a regular re-evaluation of the risk of limited and regionally-focused conflict. The architecture of international security has yet to be sufficiently reconstructed to ensure that all relevant players in the resolution of global conflicts have a clear voice. The close relationship between foreign, domestic, political and industrial strategy has even wider implications for peoples' lives.
