Virtual states : the Internet and the boundaries of the nation-state /

This text analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society. The author argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the state, this will mean not the decline but rather the mutation of the state.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Everard, Jerry, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2000.
Series:Technology and the global political economy.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Virtual states : theory and practice. W(h)ither the state?
  • Internet@www.history.edu
  • pt. 2. The developing world. Hungry, thirsty and wired
  • Sovereignty, boundary making and the net
  • Culture and the other on the internet
  • pt. 3. The developed world. Process : the key to the cyborg
  • Economy@internet.com
  • The @ of war
  • pt. 4. Internet and society. Virtually real/really virtual
  • Internet censorship : US, Europe and Australia
  • Alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy.