Globalistan: How The Globalized World Is Dissolving Into Liquid War: An Antidote to THE WORLD IS FLAT (Chronicles of Liquid War) - Softcover

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Escobar, Pepe

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9780978813826: Globalistan: How The Globalized World Is Dissolving Into Liquid War: An Antidote to THE WORLD IS FLAT (Chronicles of Liquid War)
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ISBN 10: 0978813820 ISBN 13: 9780978813826
Publisher: Nimble Books LLC, 2007

Synopsis

Globalistan weaves three parallel and intersecting themes: globalization, energy wars and the Long War. It shows how globalization is not proceeding according to the myth of "everyone profits": instead, it is fragmenting the world into even more explosive inequality, into "stans" - some stans configured as fortresses, some stans at war with others. Globalistan argues that the world is being dissolved into Liquid War - a natural consequence of "liquid modernity" , a concept formulated by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The book is 80% based on reportage - from China to Central Asia and Russia; before, during and after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in Iran and in the Middle East; in Western Europe, Western Africa and South America. It is also an Atlas - with maps - of the world in conflict.

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Globalistan weaves three parallel and intersecting themes: globalization, energy wars and the Long War. It shows how globalization is not proceeding according to the myth of "everyone profits": instead, it is fragmenting the world into even more explosive inequality, into "stans" - some stans configured as fortresses, some stans at war with others. Energy wars, and the multiple intersections of globalization and war, only increase the polarization. Globalistan argues that the world is being dissolved into Liquid War - a natural consequence of "liquid modernity," a concept formulated by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The book is 80% based on reportage - from China to Central Asia and Russia; before, during and after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in Iran and in the Middle East; in Western Europe, Western Africa and South America. It is also an Atlas - with maps - of the world in conflict.

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Publisher
Nimble Books LLC
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0978813820
ISBN 13 
9780978813826
Binding
Tapa blanda
Number of pages
366
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