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Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War

By Pepe Escobar

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0978813820, 9780978813826
Open Library ID
OL8593153M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6362826 bytes)
Pages
366\367
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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