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The Global Village Myth

Distance, War, and the Limits of Power
  • ISBN-13: 9781626161924
  • Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Patrick Porter
  • Price: AUD $63.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/03/2015
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 363g
  • Categories: International relations [JPS]USA [1KBB]
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According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar. As a result, they practice responses driven by fear: theories of falling dominoes, hysteria in place of sober debate, and an embrace of preemptive war to tame a chaotic world. Patrick Porter challenges these ideas. In The Global Village Myth, he disputes globalism's claims and the outcomes that so often waste blood and treasure in the pursuit of an unattainable "total" security. Porter reexamines the notion of the endangered global village by examining Al-Qaeda's global guerilla movement, military tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and drones and cyberwar, two technologies often used by globalists to support their views. His critique exposes the folly of disastrous wars and the loss of civil liberties resulting from the globalist enterprise. Showing that technology expands rather than shrinks strategic space, Porter offers an alternative outlook to lead policymakers toward more sensible responses - and a wiser, more sustainable grand strategy.
Introduction: Strife in the Village 1. So Near, So Far: Physical and Strategic Distance 2. Wars for the World: The Rise of Globalism: 1941, 1950, 2001 3. Lost in Space: Al Qaeda and the Limits of Netwar 4. Access Denied: Technology, Terrain, and the Barriers to Conquest 5. Wide of the Mark: Drones, Cyber, and the Tyrannies of Distance Conclusion: The Geopolitics of Hubris Index
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