Virtual States: the Internet and the Boundaries of the Nation-State (publication details)

Virtual States analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society controversially arguing that a wired society will not, as some commentators claim, mean the end of the nation state as we know it. The book begins by giving a much-needed brief history of the Internet and goes on to address issues of real contemporary concern such as Internet censorship. Within this context, Everard argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the basic processes of state-making, this will not mean the decline but rather the mutation of the state. Everard goes on to look at the different ways in which states react to the wired society in the developing and developed worlds and the impact of these reactions on those excluded from this society.

Virtual States analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society controversially arguing that a wired society will not, as some commentators claim, mean the end of the nation state as we know it. The book begins by giving a much-needed brief history of the Internet and goes on to address issues of real contemporary concern such as Internet censorship. Within this context, Everard argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the basic processes of state-making, this will not mean the decline but rather the mutation of the state. Everard goes on to look at the different ways in which states react to the wired society in the developing and developed worlds and the impact of these reactions on those excluded from this society.

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