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

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Porter, Patrick, 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
International relations.
Security, International.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 21st century.
Diplomatic relations.
United States.
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.

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