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The global financial crisis has definitely created a more dangerous world and serves as a threat to state security. Economic insecurity has led to the rise of fanatical nationalist movements (the Nazi party) and brutal regimes who try to maintain power (Robert Mugabe comes to mind). Financial troubles hit the poorest nations hardest, creating further feelings of disenfranchisement and weakening the already flimsy social institutions of the state.
This creates a myriad of problems: higher mortality rates, food/water shortages, and a breakdown of education systems. This environment is also perfect for recruiting terrorists and other criminals that cause arm and do not abide by any treaty or sort of global framework. Brainwashed by extreme ideologies and lured by the prospect of money or glory, many young men and women see these mediums as a means of escaping their poverty-stricken lives. When law-abiding careers do not provide a family with a living wage and the threat of complete financial collapse looms over a person, turning to extreme means can seem like the only option for survival in such daunting circumstances.
Economic insecurity puts all states at risk because this is a problem that strikes from the bottom-up. Third world states with unstable governments are powerless to prevent terrorist networks or an extensive black market. Typically problems within a state spill into developed states, as radical ideologies brand those states that are prosperous as immoral and wicked. In other cases, civil war erupts and runs over the boundaries of the state into neighboring states. The fact is that a poor security situation due to financial insecurity in a single state can result in problems for numerous other nations.
The current global economic crisis is more than simply dollars and cents, stocks and bonds. With such high levels of economic interdependence, economic troubles can result in the destabilization of entire governments around the globe. This creates a dire security threat that all nations should be vigilant regarding the sudden flare-up of instability in the market. So in conclusion, many aspects of world politics are tied together, and economics and security are very much intertwined. Indeed, the current financial crisis does present a security threat on a global basis that world leaders will certainly need to consider when setting their national security policies.