Cyberspaces and global affairs

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David Rothkopf

They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? Has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, this book draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our lives.

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Joel Brenner

A former top-level national Security Agency insider evaluates pressing threats in digital security, revealing how operatives from hostile nations have infiltrated power, banking, and military systems to steal information and sabotage defense mechanisms.

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sous la direction de Dominique Bendo-Soupou

Depuis la crise du système bipolaire, la Méditerranée acquiert une importance stratégique majeure. Malgré ses crises, conflits et guerres persistantes, la Méditerranée se présente comme un espace du dialogue et de la communication forcés et difficiles depuis 2001, de la multiplication et de la recomposition des États-Nations ethniques traditionnels, de la promotion de la globalisation-mondialisation économique. Mais elle est quand même le lieu où s'entrecroisent les flux migratoires naturels et multi-ethniques des trois grands continents qui le marquent sur tous les plans malgré les ingérences des puissances extra-méditerranéennes.

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M.I. Franklin

"Contemporary Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of everyday life as well as an integral element to large scale political-economic change. In this close-up study of pioneering and longstanding Internet discussion forums, M.I. Franklin explores the practice of everyday life online. The author traces the online practices and discussion content produced by postcolonial and diasporic communities as they (re)articulate gendered, political, ethnic and cultural dimensions to life for postcolonial societies on-the-ground. In a neoliberal global era, however, possibilities for intercultural and intracultural empowerment evident in the postcolonial politics of representation of these communities have to contend with new and entrenched political-economic and sociocultural pressures from all sides. Franklin argues that these Pacific traversals in public, open cyberspace trace another possible future for the Internet; more hospitable and equitable than the one currently being put in place by large corporations." "This book will be of interest to students of international relations/international political economy, anthropology, cultural studies, science and technology studies."--Jacket.