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Militaries, finance, and (in)security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Emily Gilbert
Emily Gilbert*
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University of Toronto, Canada
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Corresponding author: Emily Gilbert, Program inCanadian Studies and Department of Geography and Planning, University ofToronto, Toronto, Canada. Email:emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca
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This essay points to some of the ways that militaries are focused on money and economics, and addresses what this means for understanding the entanglements of security and finance. We cannot think about security in the contemporary moment without also thinking about militaries and war, and it is only by addressing how military power engages money and finance that can we better understand how insecurity is enacted.

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Forum: Conceptualising finance-security relations
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Finance and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Finance and security , 2017, pp. 180 - 187
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