ABSTRACT
First published in 2000. Virtual States challenge the idea that the nation state is dead. In all the hype about the Internet, little thought has been given to the systematic inequalities being brought about by globalisation, and exacerbated by the global spread of the Internet. Jerry Everard argues that new disparities are emerging between the information 'haves' ad the information 'have-nots': between wealthy and poor states; and between the wealthy and poor in wealthy states. Virtual States systematically addresses these inequalities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part I|23 pages
Virtual states
chapter 1|8 pages
W(h)ither the state?
chapter 2|13 pages
Internet@www.history.edu
part II|44 pages
The developing world
chapter 3|17 pages
Hungry, thirsty and wired
chapter 4|13 pages
Sovereignty, boundary making and the Net
chapter 5|12 pages
Culture and the Other on the Internet
part III|50 pages
The developed world
chapter 6|11 pages
Process: the key to the Cyborg
chapter 7|15 pages
Economy@internet.com
chapter 8|22 pages
The @ of war
part IV|43 pages
Internet and society