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dc.contributor.authorPorter, P
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-28T14:27:05Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-27
dc.description.abstractAccording 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.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/26128
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherGeorgetown University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/global-village-mythen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder indefinite embargo - no publisher permission. The final published version is available from the publisher via the link in this record.en_GB
dc.rights© 2014 Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.subjectPolitical Scienceen_GB
dc.titleThe Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Poweren_GB
dc.typeBooken_GB
dc.identifier.isbn1626161925
dc.identifier.isbn9781626161924
dc.descriptionPublisheden_GB


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