ABSTRACT
The AGM has been dealt with as a network of networks engaged in conflictual and co-operative movement capacity building at a global level acting as a strange attractor in the process of emergence associated with global civil society actors. Within this process we have argued that the strength of weak ties and significance of small world networks are critical factors in the ability of the AGM to perturbate normative repertoires organising political discourse. These processes are technologically enabled and mediated through CMC and physical mobility. As we explored in Chapter 3 technological and face-work networking at a global level also typify the activities of state and supra-national actors responding to AGM activities, particularly those associated with ‘summit sieges’. Whilst the technical mediations are common in kind if not scale, this chapter argues that their use by ‘security state’, ‘political state’ and ‘financial state’ reproduces established and dominant discourses through ‘strong ties’ consolidating established ‘habits of mind’ associated with Western nation state actors on the global stage understood as an arena of international relations.
