The global village myth : distance, war, and the limits of power / Patrick Porter.

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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Main Author: Porter, Patrick, 1976- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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