8. Cyberespace et organisations « virtuelles »: l'État souverain a-t-il encore un avenir ?

Jean-Philippe Vergne and Rodolphe Durand

Regards croisés sur l'économie, 2014, vol. n° 14, issue 1, 126-139

Abstract: This article examines the role of ?pirate organizations? in the evolution of capitalist societies. Specifically, we argue that capitalist expansion takes place within territories ? for instance, cyberspace ? onto which the sovereign state seeks to impose norms, often followed by traditional corporations, but often contested by pirate organizations. Piracy, far from being merely a romanticized form of criminality, actually contributes to the coproduction of the ?rules of the game? in changing capitalist societies. We develop these ideas in the context of cyber-piracy and explain why pirates threaten the nation-state system inaugurated by the 17th century Treaty of Westphalia.

Date: 2014
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