This edited volume offers important new methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political violence.

Richard Devetak is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia.

Christopher W. Hughes is Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, as well as Reader in International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Globalization's Shadow: An Introduction to the Globalization of Political Violence Richard Devetak Part 2: Military Force 2. Globalization and Military Force(s) Graeme Cheeseman 3. Cosmopolitanism and Military Intervention William Smith and Robert Fine Part 3: Global Insecurity 4. Globalization and Political Violence: The Environmental Connection Lorraine Elliott 5. International Legal Responses to WMD Proliferation Daniel H. Joyner Part 4: States of Violence 6. The Globalization of Violence against Refugees Sharon Pickering 7. Old Violences, New Challenges: The Adaptation of Basque ETA to its Changing Environment Asta Maskaliunaite Part 5: State Failure and the Global Economy 8. State Failure and Intervention in Africa Paul-Simon Handy and Dunja Speiser 9. Post-Conflict Recovery: New Wars and the Global Economy Tony Addison Part 6: Counter-Globalizations 10. Antipodal Terrorists? Accounting for Differences in Australian "Global" Neojihadists Peter Lentini 11. "Viva Nihilism!" On Militancy and Machismo in (Anti-) Globalization Protest Sian Sullivan