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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Expected online publication date:
- February 2025
- Print publication year:
- 2025
- Online ISBN:
- 9781009397414
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World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology. Understood as 'world building', the most important events of our troubled times suddenly appear connected and their inner logic is revealed: technology wars between China and the United States, the pandemic,the war in Ukraine and the energy transition. In conclusion, Maçães considers the more distant future, when the metaverse and artificial intelligence become the world – one the great powers must struggle to build and control.
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