Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics.
As an intersection between communication and international relations, it bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. One central theme that emerges in the book is the continuity of asymmetries in power relations that can be traced back to 19th-century European imperialism, manifested in its various incarnations from -liberal- to -neo-liberal-, to -digital- imperialism. The book includes a discussion of the post-Cold War US-led transformation of the hardware and software of global communication and how it has been challenged by the -rise of the rest-, especially China. Other key issues covered include the geopolitics of image wars, weaponization of information and the visibility of discourses emana
