ABSTRACT
Richard Falk, still active at the age of 90, can be appreciated for his public impacts, his social science conceptualizations, and his legal methods integrated with an interdisciplinary style. The types of realist and liberal world orders that Falk has critiqued necessitate a cosmopolitan world order where the militarization and economic devastation of realism and liberalism eschew liberal capitalism and clubs of democracies that preach virtue but hide their actually ugly practices. Falk has explicitly and implicitly endeavored to emulate securitization theory, much as he has borrowed eclectically from the New Haven School, critical theory, constructivism, and other theoretical approaches. Specifically, Falk's work points us toward the securitization framework as an analytical tool to develop new theories of how militarization functions in the postmodern era through a diverse and complex arrangement of social relations, institutions, and structures that would otherwise not be associated with the mobilization of society for war.
