ABSTRACT
It has become common in recent years, when discussing the political impacts of cyberspace, to note that the rise of cyberspace has coincided with the extension of globalisation and the fall of the nation state. Undoubtedly that would be news to those various nation states involved in conflicts during the 1990s, in Europe, Asia and Africa, and indeed to the sense of patriotism engendered in the USA following terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
