ABSTRACT
This chapter has been taken up with two key social goods or investments against which societies now effectively measure the legitimacy of their states, and which, given the forces and processes of thick globalization, states now struggle to provide. In the material realm, obvious links have been drawn between the globalization of defence production, and the diminished capacity of the state to manage all the variables that comprise its security environment. Globalization includes among other things the near universalization of both democratic ideals and the state, brings to light serious difficulties at the very point where security, the state, and democracy converge. Demobilization there has been an expansion of the definition and parameters of security, to the extent that society now increasingly clamours for more of it from the state. In addition to demobilization and the increasing demand from society for expanded scope and coverage, equally powerful trend informs the state-society relationship when viewed through the lens of security.
