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Hyperconflict
James H. Mittelman
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Description for Hyperconflict
hardcover. A combination of heightened economic competition and an extreme concentration of power in geopolitics globalizes insecurity in the form of hyperconflict: a reorganization of political violence, a growing climate of fear, and increasing instability at a world level. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics and geopolitics of globalization, one that extends to the geostrategic realm. Yet few analysts have sought to span this gulf.
Filling the void, Mittelman identifies systemic drivers of global security and insecurity and demonstrates how the intense interaction between them heightens insecurity at a world level. The emergent confluence he labels hyperconflict—a structure characterized ... Read more
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics and geopolitics of globalization, one that extends to the geostrategic realm. Yet few analysts have sought to span this gulf.
Filling the void, Mittelman identifies systemic drivers of global security and insecurity and demonstrates how the intense interaction between them heightens insecurity at a world level. The emergent confluence he labels hyperconflict—a structure characterized ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804763752
SKU
V9780804763752
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About James H. Mittelman
James H. Mittelman is University Professor of International Affairs at American University. His recent books include Whither Globalization? The Vortex of Knowledge and Ideology (Routledge, 2004) and The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Reviews for Hyperconflict
"This volume is a seminal contribution to the literature on the nexus of globalization, insecurity, and conflict, particularly because it introduces useful concepts such as hyperconflict, hypercompetition, and hyperpower in order to provide very useful insights about profound changes that have taken place in territoriality, legitimacy, economies, and rival belief systems, among other issues...Highly recommended." - E. Conteh-Morgan, University of ... Read more