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Deep Connections: The Hidden Battles to Control Subsea Cables - Hardcover

Bego, Katja

 
9781509565870: Deep Connections: The Hidden Battles to Control Subsea Cables
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509565876 ISBN 13: 9781509565870
Verlag: Polity, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Deep beneath the world's oceans lurks a threat with the potential to cause major disruption and conflict: a network of cables through which almost all global internet traffic runs. These invisible but vital assets, spanning almost 1.4 million kilometres, are increasingly under siege by tech giants fuelling an AI bubble and state actors vying for control and seeking to undermine their geopolitical adversaries.

We are currently witnessing a dramatic uptick in mysterious cable cuts, from the Arctic to the South China Sea. NATO ships patrol the seas to protect chokepoints. Intelligence agencies are raising the alarm about backdoors and wiretapping. While the United States and China are racing to muscle each other out of the cable network, others like Europe are rushing to reduce their dependencies and achieve tech sovereignty.

Yet this battle over cables is not new. Britain's dominance over global communications helped it win the First World War. American submarines engaged in daring operations to tap Soviet cables during the Cold War. In Deep Connections, Katja Bego traces the past, present and future of this complex sub-sea infrastructure to show how its weaponization risks fragmenting the network, the open Internet – and with it, the global order.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Katja Bego is a writer and commentator on topics at the nexus of technology, security and geopolitics. She is currently a senior research fellow in Chatham House's Europe programme.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509565876
ISBN 13 
9781509565870
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
348
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