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  • The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power (Book review)

    Author(s)
    Hall, Ian
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hall, Ian I.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    We are told that modern technology has dissolved distance, making it possible for adversaries to strike at Western states with no or little warning, and making it necessary for the United States, in particular, actively to police the ‘global village’. ‘A world linked and shrunken is a world forever on the brink of chaos’, so this story goes – a world that demands ‘Kantianism with Cruise Missiles’ (p.33).We are told that modern technology has dissolved distance, making it possible for adversaries to strike at Western states with no or little warning, and making it necessary for the United States, in particular, actively to police the ‘global village’. ‘A world linked and shrunken is a world forever on the brink of chaos’, so this story goes – a world that demands ‘Kantianism with Cruise Missiles’ (p.33).
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    Journal Title
    Political Studies Review
    Volume
    14
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929916663066
    Subject
    Political science
    Social Sciences
    Government & Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/410220
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