Cryptography and the Global South: secrecy, signals and information imperialism.
For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 41; no. 11; pp. 1900 - 1918 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2020
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