Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance

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CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii PREFACE ix ACRONYMS xi IMPORTANT TERMS xv 1 INTRODUCTION: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CHANGING SCOPE OF GLOBAL POWER AND GOVERNANCE 1 J. P. Singh 2 GLOBAL NETWORKS AND THEIR IMPACT 39 Jonathan Aronson PART I: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER 3 PUBLIC EYES: SATELLITE IMAGERY, THE GLOBALIZATION OF TRANSPARENCY, AND NEW NETWORKS OF SURVEILLANCE 65 Karen T. Litfin 4 INFORMATIONAL META-TECHNOLOGIES, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GENETIC POWER: THE CASE OF BIOTECHNOLOGIES 91 Sandra Braman PART II: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE 5 CIRCUITS OF POWER: SECURITY IN THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT 115 Ronald J. Deibert 6 THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WINTELISM: A NEW MODE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL COMPUTER INDUSTRY 143 Sangbae Kim and Jeffrey A. Hart 7 NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CONSUMPTION: CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER 169 Edward Comor PART III: GOVERNANCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS 8 CAPITALISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIBERALIZATION: THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGIME, 1865–1998 189 Mark W. Zacher 9 UNDERSTANDING SHIFTS IN THE FORM AND SCOPE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOVERNANCE: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 211 Stephen D. McDowell 10 NEGOTIATING REGIME CHANGE: THE WEAK, THE STRONG, AND THE WTO TELECOM ACCORD 239 J. P. Singh CONCLUSION 11 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SKILLS, NETWORKS, AND STRUCTURES THAT SUSTAIN WORLD AFFAIRS 275 James N. Rosenau LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 289 INDEX 293 vi INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL POLITICS ...