Worldview: A new book compares the infrastructure of globalisation to previous empires’ roads, seaways and highways
The ruthless US willingness to weaponise the networks with sanctions against individuals, companies and states has become increasingly apparent over the past decade. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
That this is imperial behaviour is taken for granted by the authors. They compare underground US power to previous empires’ roads, seaways and highways, and insist its chokepoints, hubs and networks confer power to those at its centre.
US state power was reasserted after 9/11 to capture and use the new fibre optic-communications links. The extraordinary extent of state surveillance created in those years was revealed in the leak of US intelligence files byin 2013, which this book fully acknowledges.
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