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Virtual states : the Internet and the boundaries of the nation-state / Jerry Everard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Technology and the global political economyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 174 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203020081
  • 9780203020081
  • 9781134692767
  • 1134692765
  • 0203159217
  • 9780203159217
  • 9781134692712
  • 1134692714
  • 9781134692750
  • 1134692757
  • 9781138163973
  • 113816397X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtual states.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/33 21
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .E94 2000eb
Other classification:
  • 54.60
  • MF 1000
  • MK 8000
  • MS 4850
  • DAT 614f
  • POL 210f
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Virtual states : theory and practice. W(h)ither the state? -- Internet@www.history.edu -- pt. 2. The developing world. Hungry, thirsty and wired -- Sovereignty, boundary making and the net -- Culture and the other on the internet -- pt. 3. The developed world. Process : the key to the cyborg -- Economy@internet.com -- The @ of war -- pt. 4. Internet and society. Virtually real/really virtual -- Internet censorship : US, Europe and Australia -- Alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy.
Summary: This text analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society. The author argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the state, this will mean not the decline but rather the mutation of the state.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-169) and index.

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pt. 1. Virtual states : theory and practice. W(h)ither the state? -- Internet@www.history.edu -- pt. 2. The developing world. Hungry, thirsty and wired -- Sovereignty, boundary making and the net -- Culture and the other on the internet -- pt. 3. The developed world. Process : the key to the cyborg -- Economy@internet.com -- The @ of war -- pt. 4. Internet and society. Virtually real/really virtual -- Internet censorship : US, Europe and Australia -- Alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy.

This text analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society. The author argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the state, this will mean not the decline but rather the mutation of the state.

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