by gtdonovan on September 4, 2011 at 2:28 pm · Filed under Antipode, citizenship, colonial, Cowen, geoeconomics, geopolitics, governance, quotes, security, Smith
From “After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics,” pp25-40:
A geoeconomic conception of security underlines conflicts between the logics of territorial states and global economic flows, the proliferation of non-state and private actors entangled in security, and the recasting of citizenship and social forms.
… Whatever else it implies, geoeconomics has come to provide a new disciplining architecture replacing the geopolitical mechanisms of colonial administration.
by gtdonovan on September 1, 2011 at 11:41 am · Filed under antitrust, att, Deutsche Telekom, governance, law, link, net neutrality, tmobile, wireless
“The U.S. government sued to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market … the U.S. is seeking a declaration that Dallas-based AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, would violate U.S. antitrust law.”
