The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power - Hardcover

Porter, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626161933 ISBN 13: 9781626161931

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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. Porter argues that this vision of the world has resulted in the US undertaking too many unnecessary military adventures and dangerous strategic overstretch. Distance and geography should be some of the factors that help the US separate the important from the unimportant in international relations. The US should also recognize that, despite the latest technologies, projecting power over great distances still incurs frictions and costs that set real limits on American power. Reviving an appreciation of distance and geography would lead to a more sensible and sustainable grand strategy.

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Patrick Porter is Professor of Strategic Studies, University of Exeter (UK) and the author of Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626161933
• ISBN 13: 9781626161931
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
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