From Multipolarity to Multinodality in International Security

The EU, as in the international economy, traditional institutions can only control the new complex and globalised environment while new transnational actors and interactions gain influence within the system. Globalisation has raised both the number of transnational and translocal actors able to influence international security and the way in which their influence is applied. Security problems are no longer framed within a limited set of national or intergovernmental poles.