Global village myth : distance, war, and the limits of power /

PORTER Patrick

Global village myth : distance, war, and the limits of power / Patrick Porter. - London : Hurst & Company, 2015. - ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 war. Globalism does not just describe the world, but prescribes expansive strategies to deal with it, portraying a fragile globe that the superpower must continually tame into order...

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