NOTE: Nation-states, Market-states, and Virtual-states

I'm in the latest issue of Global Crime with an article entitled, "Nation-states, Market-states, and Virtual-states." Here's a summary:

The advent of a global economic and physical superinfrastructure is in the process of transforming terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and the nation-state. A useful model for understanding this process of transformation is Philip Bobbitt’s work, “The Shield of Achilles.” Bobbitt’s work persuasively argues that the nation-state is in a difficult and dangerous process of transition to a new form of governance, called the market-state, that will be able to both withstand the pressures and thrive in a globalized environment. This process is complicated by the emergence of a vicious asymmetric competitor, in the form of a virtual state that leverages the huge flows of the global criminal economy, combined with the weakness of the nation-state during its phase transition to the market-state. This essay details the structure of this conflict and provides scenarios for its potential outcome.

It's actually a fun read with articles by van Creveld, Bunker, Hazim, Manwaring, and others.

Comments

[Azr@el]

There is a morality tale in here somewhere,"a closed source discussion of open source phenomenon". Please repost this when some russian teenager rips off shield of achilles on some scandanavian website, or better yet when half a dozen students from different cultures boil down the gist of his arguments as they percieve it thru their cultural lenses and then post it on their c-v pages.

[hfiend]

Off topic: I though of this blog in particular when I saw this...

http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php