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

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).