Two authors look at the downside of global togetherness. In
Global Habit
(Brookings, £20.95/$26.95, ISBN 0 8157 8140 7), Paul
Stares focuses
on the spread of illicit drugs from the margins of societies to the realm of
multinational industry. Meanwhile, Herbert Schiller wonders whether democracy
can survive our migration into borderless cyberspace in Information
Inequality
(Routledge, £12.99, ISBN 0 415 90765 9). Schiller suggests that
inequality
of access and impoverished content of information might divide this new
world.
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