Globalization contained : the economic and strategic consequences of the container /

The freight container facilitates an extraordinary amount of commercial exchange while undermining sovereign autonomy. By helping to integrate world trade, the container empowers the activities of non-state actors - both licit and illicit. These activities have given rise to new tensions that threat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hoovestal, Lance E., 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Freight and freightage. International economic relations. Non-state actors (International relations) Security, International. TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / Pictorial. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. The Postwar World
2. The Advent of the Container
3. The Economic Consequences of the Container
4. The Strategic Consequences of the Container
5. The US
6. China.