Information technologies and global politics : the changing scope of power and governance / edited by James N. Rosenau and J.P. Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: information technologies and the changing scope of global power and governance / J.P. Singh -- Global networks and their impact / Jonathan Aronson -- Public eyes: satellite imagery, the globalization of transparency, and new networks of surveillance / Karen T. Litfin -- Informational meta-technologies, international relations, and genetic power: the case of biotechnologies / Sandra Braman -- Circuits of power: security in the internet environment / Ronald J. Deibert -- The global political economy of Wintelism: a new mode of power and governance in the global computer industry / Sangbae Kim and Jeffrey A. Hart -- New technologies and consumption: contradictions in the emerging world order / Edward Comor -- Capitalism, technology, and liberalization: the international telecommunications regime, 1865-1998 / Mark W. Zacher -- Understanding shifts in the form and scope of telecommunications governance: Canada and the United States in the twentieth century / Stephen D. McDowell -- Negotiating regime change: the weak, the strong, and the WTO Telecom Accord / J.P. Singh -- Information technologies and the skills, networks, and structures that sustain world affairs / James N. Rosenau.

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Annotation Sharing the assumption that information technologies are shifting the locus of political power away from powerful nation-states towards NGOs, international organizations, businesses, and transnational social movements, 11 contributions are presented by Rosenau (international affairs, George Washington U.) and Singh (communication, culture, and technology, Georgetown U.). For the most part, the contributors examine the impact of specific information technologies and issue-areas on three modes of the exercise of power. These modes are defined by the editors as consisting of instrumental power (who is empowered versus disempowered), structural power (who is constrained in a given situation versus who gets to write the rules), and the relatively new concept of meta-power which addresses "how basic identities, interests, and issues themselves are reconstituted or transformed in particular historical contexts, in turn redefining other relations of power." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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