Curious blog review of Athina Karatzogianni, ed. Cyber Conflict and Global Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009):
Karatzogianni’s work is a welcome addition to the literature on networked resistance (netwar). The theme of her latest effort in this field, as stated in her introduction, is the emerging “counter-hegemonic account of globalization” faced by neo-liberal governments and institutions.One of the interesting sides to the argument is that the information revolution is altering the nature of conflict by strengthening network forms of organization over hierarchical forms. In contrast to the closure of space, the violence and identity divide found in ethnoreligious discourses, sociopolitical movements seem to rely more on networking and rhizomatic structures. U.S. power is increasingly faced with resistance movements operating on a network model and utilizing new information technologies.