Governing global security

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Across
  1. 4. A war fought between sovereign states, like the Korean War (1950-53) or Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the type that made a sharp comeback with four cases in 2024.
  2. 5. What became dispersed across states, regional organisations and non-state actors as post-Cold War security shifted from hierarchical government to fragmented governance.
  3. 6. The deep structural shift from a state-centered "government" model to a multi-actor "governance" model after the Cold War ended.
Down
  1. 1. A state's capacity to control territory, legislate and provide security, which stayed central even as security governance fragmented into overlapping actors.
  2. 2. The bipolar structure of two rival blocs that organized world politics from 1947 until the USSR's collapse in 1991.
  3. 3. Bodies like NATO, the UN, the EU, the AU and ECOWAS that broadened their missions and multiplied in number after 1991.