The global village myth : distance, war and the limits of power /
Porter challenges the powerful ideology of "Globalism" that is widely subscribed to by the US national security community. Globalism entails visions of a perilous shrunken world in which security interests are interconnected almost without limit, exposing even powerful states to instant wa...
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : strife in the village
- So near, so far : physical and strategic distance
- Wars for the world : the rise of globalism: 1941, 1950, 2001
- Lost in space : Al Qaeda and the limits of netwar
- Access denied : technology, terrain and the barriers to conquest
- Wide of the mark : drones, cyber and the tyrannies of distance
- Conclusion : the geopolitics of hubris.
