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

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

Paperback

Series: Suny Global Politics

Technology & EngineeringInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0791452042
ISBN13: 9780791452042
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 10 2002
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Examines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state.

Returning to the fundamentals of political science, namely power and governance, this book studies the relationship between information technologies and global politics. Key issue-areas are carefully examined: security (including information warfare and terrorism); global consumption and production; international telecommunications; culture and identity formation; human rights; humanitarian assistance; the environment; and biotechnology. Each demonstrates the validity of the view now prevalent within international relations research-the shifting of power and the locus of authority away from the state. Three major conclusions are offered. First, the nation-state must now confront, support, or coexist with other international actors: non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations; multinational corporations; transnational social movements; and individuals. Second, our understanding of instrumental and structural powers must be reconfigured to account for digital information technologies. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, information technologies are now reconstituting actor identities and issues.

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