World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism

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World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism

by Christian Fuchs

University of Westminster Press, 2025

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Paper: 978-1-915445-77-3

eISBN: 978-1-915445-79-7

About the Book

World politics has become highly polarised, and a new world war has become more likely. The United Nations’ 2024 Pact for the Future expressed concerns about ‘the growing risks of a nuclear war which could pose an existential threat to humanity’. Will humanity descend into barbarism, or will we realise the dangers of our global problems, weapons of mass destruction, and climate catastrophe to avoid annihilation and create perpetual world peace?

In World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism, Christian Fuchs asks: how do violence and war manifest themselves in global digital capitalism? How do digital capitalism and digital technologies manifest themselves in violence and warfare? What are the prospects for world peace today?

To prevent world war and advance world peace we need a better understanding of war and violence and their contexts and causes. We need to ask what war is, what violence is, what war and peace look like today and how they have changed in the 21st century. This book addresses these urgent questions and provides possible answers.

About the Author

Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist and Chair Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. He is the co-editor of the open-access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique and the author of many books, including Social Media: A Critical Introduction (2024, fourth edition), Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere (2023), Digital Capitalism (2022), Digital Humanism (2022), and Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (2020).