The age of unpeace : how connectivity causes conflict / Mark Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Mark, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

War.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Culture conflict.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bantam Press, 2021.

Summary:

"We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope of making war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict and the motivation to keep fighting. Troublingly, we are now seeing rising conflict at every level, from individuals on social media all the way up to nation-states in entrenched stand-offs. The past decade has seen a new antagonism between the US and China; an inability to co-operate on global issues such as climate change or pandemic response; and a breakdown in the distinction between war and peace, as overseas troops are replaced by sanctions, cyberwar and the threat of large migrant flows. As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard has been inside many of the rooms where our futures, at every level of society, are being decided - from Facebook HQ and facial-recognition labs in China to presidential palaces and remote military installations. In seeking to understand the ways in which globalization has broken its fundamental promise to make our world safer and more prosperous, Leonard explores how we might wrest a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Unwar and unpeace

There and back again

Opportunity, reasons and weapons

Great reset

pt. ONE THE OPPORTUNITY

ch. One The Great Convergence

Sense Time and Facebook

Imitation and competition

The connectivity-security dilemma

pt. TWO THE REASONS

ch. Two Connected Man: how society became divided by envy

Integration and segregation

Empathy and envy

Automation and the loss of control

ch. Three National Cultures of Unpeace: the politics of taking back control

Mobilized minorities and threatened majorities

Humiliation and powerlessness

Cultures of peace vs. cultures of unpeace

ch. Four The Geopolitics of Connectivity: why countries compete rather than work together

Interdependence and conflict

Low-cost conflict

The grievance factory

The end of order

pt. THREE WEAPONS AND WARRIORS

ch. Five An Anatomy of Unpeace: how globalization was turned into a weapon

Economic warfare

Infrastructure competition

Weaponizing the digital world

Weapons of mass migration

Lawfare

The ties that break

ch. Six The New Topography of Power

How networks unite and divide the world

The rules of networks

The chessboard and the web

The seven habits of highly effective connectivity warriors

Winners, losers and thinkers

ch. Seven Empires of Connectivity

Washington: gatekeeper power

Beijing: relational power

Brussels: rule-maker

The fourth world

Conclusion: Disarming Connectivity: a manifesto

Therapy for the age of unpeace

An intervention.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781787634657

1787634655

9781787634664

1787634663

OCLC:

1242851694

Publisher Number:

99989484573