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Countries have increased their links in a smaller, globalised world. But reactions to Russia's actions in Ukraine mean that a brake has to be put on some of this interlinking. Has globalisation made it easier or more difficult to react? Has it made it impossible to punish Russia without suffering pain at home? And where next for the sanctions and counter-sanctions? \n\n00.09 - Paul King \u2013 Editor, NATO Review \u2013 voice-over\nGlobalisation has made all of our lives more dependent on each other. As barriers fall and unions are built, the idea is that all of us stand to lose more in conflicts in a globalised world. But will this idea prove true in dealing with Russia\u2019s activities in Ukraine?\n\n00.27 \u2013 Liam Fox \u2013 Former UK Secretary of Defence\nThe great upside of globalisation should be that greater interdependence economically and should make countries less willing to be aggressive, but it is of course based on the fundamental premise that all countries are equally rational. \n\n00.45 \u2013 Alex Petriashvili \u2013 State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration\nEurope is opening borders and giving the opportunities to build bridges. As we see, the Russian Federation is trying to build new fences, new barbed wires on our territory. It is time to build bridges and to forget about the fences. \n\n01.05 - Paul King \u2013 voice-over\nBut globalisation does not automatically lead to peace, either today or in previous examples of close relationships. \n\n01.15 \u2013 Prof Julian Lindley-French \u2013 Director, Europa Analytica\nWell this is not the first age of globalisation, the 19th century was. A hundred years ago there were many, even at this late date before the outbreak of World War I, who said: We are not going to war because we\u2019re too economically interdependent. \n\n01.26 \u2013 Rob De Wijk \u2013 Founder Hague Centre for Strategic Studies\nGlobalisation is going on for decades. It\u2019s not something new. No, what is new, is the shift in balance of power in the world and the shifting centre of gravity, the economic shifting of gravity; and consequently the political centre of gravity, which is shifting to the East. What\u2019s happening at the Crimea is very comparable to what\u2019s happening right now in the South-China Sea.\n\n01.58 - Paul King \u2013 voice-over\nSo, globalisation has spawned its own conflicts, not got rid of them. And security has become even more important for the economic development that globalisation is supposed to bring. \n\n02.09 \u2013 Ten Jianqun \u2013 Director, China Institute of International Studies, Beijing\nIn recent years the South-China Sea has become a hot spot. The security, you know, should be two sides of one coin: one economy, another is security.\n\n02.21 - Paul King \u2013 voice-over\nAnd it\u2019s not just conflicts, which highlight the changing landscape. Where security forces are positioned is also part of the shifting sands. \n\n02.31 \u2013 Ten Jianqun \u2013 Director, China Institute of International Studies, Beijing\nI think China is the largest contributor among P5 in peacekeeping troops in Africa. \n\n02.40 - Paul King \u2013 voice-over\nUsing economics as a weapon can hurt in a globalised world, but this is no guarantee that it will have the desired effect.\n02.48 \u2013 Prof Julian Lindley-French \u2013 Director, Europa Analytica\nYes, economic sanctions, economic penalties, costs rather than benefits for inappropriate action\u2026 They are calculated as part of the broad remit of choices that a state makes. But if a state or a regime becomes sufficiently committed to a cause of action for reasons that may not be immediately apparent to those outside of that state, then no amount of economic sanction will actually work if that state or regime believes it\u2019s fundamental to its very survival.\n\n03.23 - Paul King \u2013 voice-over\nAnd finally, it\u2019s ironically probably the national, not the international, globalised audiences that matter most in the recent moves by President Putin.\n\n03.34 \u2013 Konstantin von Eggert \u2013 Kommersant FM Radio, Editor in Chief\nWe somehow forgot that there is a huge domestic angle to all these things. It is about Putin\u2019s new legitimacy. Yes, he\u2019s officially president, but he\u2019s in fact a national leader who does not just ensure economic stability. Actually, that\u2019s probably not as important to him as it used to be in his first presidential term, but more about him giving Russia a new face, a new spring in Russia\u2019s step and a new image for himself.\n\n\n\nNATO Review\n\nwww.nato.int/review\n\nThe opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries. \n\n\nThis video contains footage from ITN. While this video may be reproduced and used in its entirety, ITN footage cannot be used as part of a new production.